On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Clayton Berry wrote: > 1) Can Debian co-exist with my windows95 environment? As already mentioned, yes it can; you can either set up linux to load via lilo (a boot manager designed for loading linux, but perfectly capable of loading Win95 as well, so that you choose at startup), or you can use LOADLIN, which is a way of loading linux from Dos (or from Win95 "rebooted" into Dos mode).
> 2) Does Debian come with compilers for languages other than Xwindows. > (i.e. c, c++, java, and such?) First off, Xwindows is not a programming language, any more than Windows95 is a programming language. (That is, from the programming point of view, Xwindows is a large API, but this is different from the language per se) Most Xwindows programs are written in C or C++, and Debian (as do all Linux distributions I know of) comes with an excellent C compiler (gcc) and a C++ compiler that is not as great, but getting there (g++). I can't speak for the Java tools that come directly with Debian, (kaffe and guavac) but the Debian package of jdk1.1 (which can be ftp'ed from the non-free part of hamm on ftp.debian.org) works just fine for what I've been doing with it on my machine. (little math-teaching applets) And let's not limit ourselves to common languages - on my Debian CD, I find interpreters for Perl, awk, sed, Emacs Lisp, forth, scheme, intercal, python, icon, logo, tcl, and even BASIC. I find compilers for pascal, scheme, fortran77, Ada, Common Lisp, icon, and mercury (or is this one an interpreter - can't tell from the description). Then there are a handful of assemblers, and loads of debugging/development tools (most admittedly geared at C/C++, but I think gdb handles pascal and Ada debugging as well). I'm reasonably certain that there are more compilers/interpreters on the CD that I just missed; I know that there are more available via ftp. It's a wonderful environment for programming, especially for one looking to get a start in C - C and unix machines in general work together very naturally. DANIEL MARTIN p.s. I am tempted to now go and see how many of these languages I can write "hello, world!" in... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
