Question:
I need best Linux name for programmers?
eaggy
2011-05-25 06:46:34 UTC
Hi i need best Linux name for programmers
Four answers:
eli porter
2011-05-25 06:49:22 UTC
what... in Linux if you speak English we use the word "programmer" for programmers. On Windows English speakers tend to use the word "programmer".



oh.. it dawned on me that you may mean which distro is best for programmers. whoop sorry.



There isn't really a best development distro because relatively speaking development tools are rather simple (vs say 3d modeling software), so use whatever you like, ubuntu, fedora, suse, etc.



They can all run eclipse, netbeans, vim or whatver you use jsut the same and all come with python and gcc installed
deonejuan
2011-05-25 10:00:53 UTC
For me, programming is a combination of graphics, languages, 3D, photography, and databases. In other words I want a lot of tools. Ubuntu has the largest selection of pre-built software to ready to install.



If you are into building Linux software, then Red Hat Linux will give you deep insight of how Linux works.



I like Ubuntu with NetBeans. Installs in 30 minutes to a blank partition. I'm coding in 32 minutes after that. C/C++ java python php javascript
?
2011-05-25 07:00:51 UTC
Assuming eli is right and you're looking for the best linux distro for programming, I think the best today is gentoo because of its concept of slotted installation: it installs multiple versions of the same program and offers the ability to switch between the versions on the fly.



I have three different versions of GCC (and several other C++ compilers) on my gentoo workstation, two different versions of the boost C++ library, four different versions of python and three java VMs.



I can type, say, gcc-config 2, and the next compilation will use gcc 4.5.2 which is what I have installed in slot 2 for gcc, then I can type gcc-config 3, and the next compilation will use gcc 4.6.0. Then I can eselect boost set 1 and the next compilation will use boost 1.42, and I can switch back to 1.46 with eselect boost set 2.



Of course, perhaps not many programmers actually need the ability to test their code against multiple versions of the same compiler or multiple versions of the same library, but as far as programming needs go, this is great.
rehkop
2016-12-05 04:15:35 UTC
working in the marketplace as a working laptop or pc engineer and alertness engineer for over 30 years -- I even have worked with 1000's of programmers from each walk of existence and each non secular historic past. lots of the best pc scientists I even have ever ordinary have been from the "great 4" faiths (ie Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus). Being an atheist myself i do no longer see any reason to anticipate that we could be to any extent further or much less probable to be reliable at it. evaluate that many people who can savour high quality paintings or song or gourmand cooking are actually not incredibly gifted at coming up it.


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