2008/5/25 Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The developers work on Windows workstations. In the good scenario they pull > an Eclipse session with X windows. In the bad scenario they run Linux + > Eclipse and toolchain in VMware. In the really bad situation they program > everything in Visual Studio and copy the files manually using CIFS or FTP to > a remote outdated Linux machine and compile it by hand using a shell script > written by an outside consultant. > > What "developers desktop experience" are you talking about? > > And again, just in case this is somehow lost - I am NOT talking about old > hand VI and Emacs yielding Linux developers. I am talking about your average > Joe Programmer in a typical commercial development environment doing a Linux > commercial program. > > Do I sound bitter? nope. I'm being realistic.
This is similar (but not identical) to the situation I have at hand now - some of our developers, including the manager of development, are Windows people being forced to develop also on Linux (hopefully solely on Linux not too far down the track). So he wants to be have access to CentOS 5 environment (development tools, Apache server) on top of his Windows laptop. He found Ulteo Virtual Desktop (www.ulteo.com) but it seems to be based on Ubuntu (and coLinux, which quite makes sense to me). The advantage of it on top of other virtualization solutions is that the Linux windows integrate with the Windows desktop, instead of having a "root window" of their own, and Ulteo supposedly do a good job of integrating the Linux host with the Windows disk and network. Is anyone aware of such a thing based on CentOS? Thanks, --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
