(i'm responding only because i didn't see the more qualified people respond to this yet)
Thanks. Anyone's experience counts.
from stability point of view, you should install RH 9.0 - but it's a "dead goat" because of redhat's recent moves.
Yes, I learned this by now. But right now the feeling I get is the FC is not stable enough, and that an installation of RH 9 should be upgradable to FC once FC is more stable.
i got my PC installed with fedora (fedora core I - with the patches that were available from redhat at the time). i use it for java development (althought i don't use an IDE yet...) and it works mostly stable. it's overloaded since i run on it something that was planned to be run on 3-4 different machines, but it did not crash on me yet.
Good to hear that.
I'm more interested in being able to count on the dist that whatever I install/remove on it, it will still "play" and I won't find myself learning to handle "RPM hell" (being a spoiled Debian user I almost never had to deal with this :)).
it's open-office seems to be the version that doesn't support hebrew (althought i think it should - i think it's version 1.1.0 or soemthing similar - perhaps this is just a fonts problem?), but it shows the english documents written inside the company quite ok (until there are drawings in the documents - that's where it 'squashes' the drawing onto the text). i use mozilla for surfing, since i was too lazy to get a different browser there.
How practical would it be to install the OpenOffice binaries from OpenOffice.org(.il)?
since the machine has a pentium 4 with hyper-threading, i installed an SMP kernel and it now runs with '2 CPUs' - does windows XP does this out of the box, by the way? (i don't know since i didn't check).
i was somewhat skeptic about finding RPMs for redora, or running commercial applications - but at least some things seem to work (such as vmware). i didn't yet manage to get the Java IDE (Idea's IntelliJ) running on it - thought i didn't try realy hard.
I thought that FC was basically more or less what RH 9 was when FC came out, so anything which runs on RH 9 should behave the same on FC. Is this correct?
i don't use any C++ IDE either - by my room-mate, which also runs fedora on his desktop, runs both IntelliJ (Java) and anjuta (C/C++) on his fedora with no noticeable problems.
Good, thanks. Anjuta is what I plan to install too.
I should also be careful not to setup something too shaky if I want to convicne them to switch the entire office to Linux desktops.
why do you want to do that? people should stick with what gives them their pleasure - unless this is an "everyone must have the same platform" kind of office.
Programmers here are payed to develop, not to administrate their systems. The single system admin we have won't be able to support just anything that a programmer wants to install on his system, and setting a common standard in a workplace are still a good thing. As for moving people over to Linux - I expect our workplace would eventually save a few thousands of dollars on MS licenses from doing this.
as for the issue of developing on windows and deploying on Unix - i've seen that somewhere, and that was part of what kept me away from that place...
The managers considered using Linux as a desktop for programmers almost a year ago when we just startted working there but decided that it's too much hussle at the time to inter-operate with the Windows which had to be used by secretaries of another body to which we are connected.
Now that we have a dedicated sysadmin and our networks are pretty much separated the situation might be more ripe for an all-Linux network.
--Amos
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