You're best bet is Xubuntu if you want GUI or plain Ubuntu/Debian server on VirtualBox (or even better VMware for its simple networking). That way you don't have any gotchas when deploying your node app to production.
On Windows I use Chrome + SecureShell add-on to to connect to my virtual machines. I use tmux and vim from terminal. My colleagues map a samba share from the virtual machine and they edit the files in Windows using Sublime. That works surprisingly well. An Ubuntu server with node, redis and mongodb run just fine in 512MB. On Friday, October 19, 2012 7:23:05 AM UTC-7, jerome wrote: > > Hi All, > > For various reasons, I may be switching to a Windows PC at home, but would > like to continue playing with Node. > > I've been on a Mac for years. Am I likely to encounter any pitfalls or > gotchas doing node dev on Windows? > > A buddy of mine reminded me that some of the add ons require a C compiler. > What are my options? > > -- > Regards, > Jerome > Music <http://www.jeromecovington.com/music/> || Web > Dev<http://www.jeromecovington.com/dev/> > > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
