On 05/02/2008, mramirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Something like: "In Suse, there is a problem with the fonts", "In > Fedora, you have to setup this file", etc > > One of the things, that dumped Kylix (Delphi for Linux), was that the > O.S. required extra configuration, compared to windowze.
I use Ubuntu because it's small - a one CD download. I don't have the bandwidth to download 4-6 CD's like other distros. I only need one editor, one office application etc... Ubuntu gives me that. And what it doesn't have, I can install later (one package at a time). Lazarus is really not that hard to setup under Linux. The easiest is to start with a binary FPC setup, maybe even a binary Lazarus setup. Yes, it's different to Windows, but that's because the *unix way of development and packaging applications are different to Windows. Unix style of development is write something small and specific - and most of all be good at it. No bloated tools thinking they are a office suite etc.. Because of that you have many smaller libraries, which causes a few more dependencies. To compile and link any program using those libraries, you need the development packages (*-devel) for those libraries. It all sounds a lot more complicated than it really is. :) With Ubuntu, which uses the 'apt' package management tool you only need to specify a few packages to install and 'apt' will resolve all the other dependencies for you. I once made a list of all required *-devel packages to be installed on a clean Ubuntu system to be able to compile and link a Lazarus application. That includes Lazarus of course. I'll search my emails and post that message again. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
