How to test drive development using Linux

How to test drive development using Linux Cardell Rice

Choose a Linux Distribution
The Ubuntu distribution was selected because of its popularity and community support.
Ease of setup
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Can’t use old computer
The computer has to have a CD Burner because the Ubuntu Linux distribution comes as an ISO image
The computer has to be able to boot from both a CD and USB thumb drive.
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Can’t use old computer
While Linux is suitable to run on older computers we are going to boot and run from a USB thumb drive
Using a thumb drive will allow us to test drive the Linux OS without disturbing our current home or work Windows installation.
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Thumb Drive OS Setup
Format the thumb drive Fat32
Boot from the Ubuntu CD and insert the thumb drive.
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Thumb Drive OS Setup
Ubuntu Linux will use the Casper utility to allow persistent storage on the thumb drive
This will allow saving system configuration information, software application and drivers
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Native graphics drivers
Most newer motherboards with built in graphics use Nvidia or Ati hardware
The Ubuntu site has drivers for both of these manufacturers
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Other native graphics drivers
Most other graphic card manufacturers support Linux and drivers can be found on there websites
The reason for installing a native driver is faster GUI response and OpenGL
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Install native graphics driver
Download the graphics driver from the manufactures website and install from the command line
Install the graphics driver using the Synaptic Package Manager
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Applications
Open Office that comes with the distribution has a word processor, spreadsheet and power point utility
You can create files compatible with MS Office versions 97/2000/XP
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Wine
Stands for (Win)dows (E)mulator
Used to emulate both 16 and 32 bit widows applications
Wine will run versions 6,6.5, and 7 of Lotus Notes
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Wine
Wine will run versions 5,6, and 7 of IE
Wine will run Office 2007
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Setup Development environment
Install and configure Sun Java SDK as GNU java in installed by default
Install Maven
Install CVS/Subversion
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IDE’s
Install Ubuntu compatible Eclipse 3.2 which is downloaded from the Ubuntu repository
Install Netbeans 6.7 from Sun
Install Flex Builder for Linux from Adobe
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Utilities
VPN setup for linux OS information available on mapped network drives.
Remote login built into Ubuntu distribution allows remote login to and from Linux systems.
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Remote Login
NXServer utility can be used to allow remote login from Windows to Linux
XWinLogon utility can also be used to allow remote login from Windows to Linux
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Web and Application Servers
Jboss
Tomcat
WebLogic
Apache
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LAMP
“ LAMP”, which stands for “Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP”
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Pros
Persistent storage allows software and configuration to be saved
Easy way to test drive linux on multiple computers.
More efficient use of computer resources
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Cons
No easy way of testing using Safari
Likely use of older versions of Eclipse IDE
Getting familiar with the Unix OS
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How to test drive development using Linux

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