[Cumbria] For discussion - Is Linux really ready for the Enterprise

[Ken Hough]

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>>I like your style.  Nothing like stirring the pot occassionaly!
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>Don't encourage him!
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Spoil sport!

>Good, another developer. Someone to bug when I (eventually) get round to
>trying some myself. I currently do development under windows, using (amongst
>others) Delphi, Perl and Winbatch. Obviously perl is cross-platform, and I
>have played around with porting some of my scripts. Delphi has a linux twin
>called kylix which I want to try, and I have a C++ book I must get round to
>following...
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I did play a little with Borland C++ Builder under MS Windows and I 
reckon it's good. Also tried Kylix (v1 I think) and that also seemed 
good, although I'm not a Pascal/Delphi programmer. That also seemed good.

A recent review of Linux Programming IDEs rated Kdevelop as the best for 
serious stuff.

>I even copy and burn CDs from the command line.  Of course, I use GUI
>apps for office type jobs and internet, etc and very good they are
>these  days.
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>You really are a CLI person, aren't you? I'm surprised you're using the gui
>internet apps instead of lynx and pine/mutt... :-)
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CLI person I may be, but it's really simpler than any of the GUI apps. 
eg for data CDs:

                               readcd  dev=1,0,0 f=/tmp/cdname.raw

                                cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=1,1,0 -data 
/tmp/cdname.raw

Now that's not difficult is it?

Note: As I have a SCSI card,  ide-scsi shows as the second (ie number 1) 
SCSI channel


Ken Hough