-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/08 01:12, Byron Watkins wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to ween myself from Windows. A couple of months ago > I > installed Debian on my new amd64 box and I am generally quite impressed > by the amalgam. There are a few items that I have been unable to > address satisfactorily, however.
Congrats and good luck! (You seem to be running Etch. If this is your home box, I urge you to move up to Lenny/Testing, or even Sid. Current (or relatively currently) versions of software, kernels, etc. > First, I am a programmer in one of my hobby lives. I love C and > C++ > and I have installed the gcc and g++ packages on my new box. I have not > yet found a good integrated developer environment, however. About the > only thing good about Windows, in my opinion, is their Visual C++. > > Second, I am an electrical engineer, so I would like to get > closer to > the hardware. In order to do so, it would be nice to find a tutorial > explaining the standard ways Linux implements plug and play, hardware > access permissions, and communication between hardware and applications. You'll need to become a kernel geek. There are plenty of books and web pages on the subject. Try to find stuff written during or after year 2005. Here's a place to start: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ > Third, I would like to find a good book to teach me how to > accept and > to process mouse, keyboard, graphics tablet, etc. input and how to > generate and to operate the graphical windows used in Debian. I > understand that the Gnome and/or KDE interfaces are available and it > would be nice to know what the differences, similarities, and > compatibility issues are from the programmer's perspective. I think I > am using Gnome, so my first priority is programming for Gnome, but if I > can program for both, even better. > > Any recommended literature and relevant references and/or urls > are > quite welcome and will be appreciated. You need to go over to gnome.org and join their devel list and ask them these same questions. Probably also the gtk-devel (that might not be the exact name) list. Hope you've got a thick skin, though, since I've heard that some of them can be a bit "impatient" with newbies. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuuzWS9HxQb37XmcRAseaAJ9aFWTi8bfnxdoqD3+uGAjTrIMkzQCgwy0J JOb/xkERWalmXfGsrl6H0og= =/W7X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
