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Where is a good place to get develoment tools, programming tutorials, for R.H. 7.1, also are there any major ISP's that support Linux. Like Juno, or ATT somthing like that. I was finally able to do a partition on the labtop last night . Yeah Happy New Year. But my two problems are no internet, and I don't know how to write programs for Linux. I know how to program for Windows and that's all. I want to brach out to Linux. SO help me!
JBuilder is free from Borland. Great UI, the best, I think. Can be a little tricky to install, as it doesn't support all distributions. Not RH 7.1, anyway. But you'll get it working.
Actually, Linux usually comes with a compiler -- gcc or g++. Depending if you want to do C or C++. Since Linux/Unix was written in C I'd recommend getting to know that. If you take a look at Amazon you should find a listing of some books on Linux programming.
This site might also help: http://www.linux-development.org/ (although its in german)
Sorry Can't speak German, or read it. But yeah I noticed the Compiler. Right now I'm using the KDE desktop setup or whatever. I like it better then Gnome so far. I think I need some good reading tutorials.
Also To my other part of my question about the Linux supported ISP's are there Any?
Yeah, there are millions of open-source compilers, IDEs and development environments for Linux
Check out
www.sourceforge.net
http://linux.tucows.com/
As for internet on linux, you need a real (hardware) modem and not a Winmodem, although I would've thought that laptops with PC Card modems should be hardware modems, not Winmodems to be honest.
Once you have a hardware modem, you can use Kppp to set up an internet connection from KDE, or various other tools from Gnome or other window managers. I'm sure there's a way of doing it from the command line as well, but I can't remember what it is.
YEah the modem is not a winmodem, Linux was able to un lock it and dial up. But I don't have a ISP that supports linux and needed to know if there were any major ISP's that do support so I could get that up and going on the net.
What ISP do you use? There is no reason that I can see why it would not support Linux...
I use AOL. yeah yeah laugh as much as you guys want. But it provides a good service. Anyway I don't pay the bill, and I didn't pick the ISP out. So I'm not to blame. My mother is a mainstream yuppie she has to have what everyone else has. It's not fair but she thinks it's great.
Hmm, and AOL don't allow connections from Linux?
Well I thought AOL didn't like Microsoft 'cause AOL Time Warner are trying to take over everything... much like Microsoft!
From what I hear they are working on a Linux, and they just put out AOL instant messenger for linux. Which will be pretty cool. Hogfly said ATT works with Linux I'm going to look into that.
If you're looking at compiling Java into machinecode on Linux, it can be done with GCJ. It supports many exciting things, like networking, but not the GUI yet. But they're working on it.
But of course, C++ is just as good, and perhaps better for Linux. I like Java because of the portability and simplicity, but for some work you might be better off using something else.
IIRC, there's an AOL dialer included with RH 7.1.. I'm pretty sure it's there, unfortunately I just tore down the box I had it installed on.Quote:
Originally posted by freeOn
I use AOL. yeah yeah laugh as much as you guys want. But it provides a good service. Anyway I don't pay the bill, and I didn't pick the ISP out. So I'm not to blame. My mother is a mainstream yuppie she has to have what everyone else has. It's not fair but she thinks it's great.
I have to reinstall at home, so I can check it out then.