Comments on: Unix Tools on Your Desktop – Not Just For Mac Users

By: omnicity

omnicity — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:37:01 +0000

To give Fyodor a little back-up, I would like to point out that one of those two platforms has access to far more in the way of commercially supported, professionally written applications. To my mind that more than cancels out the dis-advantage of only having access to 95% of all open-source apps.

By: Paul Annesley

Paul Annesley — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:07:56 +0000

fyodor: completely silly, and also labeled “an extreme example”. But the fact that it’s not fair to compare the two operating systems on this point doesn’t change the fact that one gives easier access to more open source developer tools than the other.

By: fyodor

fyodor — Thu, 24 May 2007 07:37:30 +0000

One of your examples is completely silly.

You compare the time it takes to download, compile and install kcachegrind on two different machines:that’s a fine idea. Except one machine doesn’t have KDE installed and the other does.

It doesn’t matter what type of machine or OS it was. If you’re going to install applications that start with “k” you are going to need KDE. Why don’t you uninstall kcachegrind on the Mac then re-install. You’ll probably find it only takes a minute or two now that it has KDE on board.

By: Matthew Magain

Matthew Magain — Tue, 22 May 2007 00:55:49 +0000

Nothing to do with virtualization, but I've always been a fan of installing the GNUWin32 suite if I'm using a Windows machine. No substitute for a proper UNIX command line, but at least makes the old DOS box a bit more useful.

By: AnandC

AnandC — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:32:40 +0000

VMware is great. I use to all the time. I actually have a write up on my blog about it as well and how to set it up for development. http://anand.biz/?p=30