5 replies to this topic

[ethikz]

Well it's been awhile since I ran Linux. I have just installed it and I am dual booting with Win 7. What are some good development kits available (compilers, etc.) pretty much something I can write code in then run to see the outcome

[Milyardo]

Installing the build-essentials package will give you GCC and the toolchains to build almost any source.

However, by Development kits, do you mean IDEs and editors? Or are you looking for interesting libraries and platforms to develop on?

[Alexander]

I assume you mean an IDE. Geany (http://www.geany.org/) has a great lightweight editor, and automatically selects the compiler to use based on the file you're editing, better alternative to the 40-100MB IDEs like Code::Blocks

[ethikz]

Well so far I have gedit as default for my editor and python since they both come installed...well looking for a bit of both

[ethikz]

thanks for the info null

[Milyardo]

I've always been a fan of Eclipse as an IDE, its awfully feature heavy for learning developers however, making it difficult to use for the novice programmer.

None the less, Pydev is an excellent extension for Eclipse to do Python Development.