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Mad Cow:
If your computer's pretty good I would suggest vmware, it's a lot faster than Cygwin.
digerati1338:
Try using linux. Much better than windows for development. Of course you know the distro that gets recommended to anyone new is Ubuntu. You can use it as a live CD if you don't want to install it, though that might negate any performance gains.
I recommend a good text editor instead of Eclipse. Emacs is great. M-x compile runs make, and it has an integrated shell.
tdtooke:
I'm finding out linux is a million times faster than cygwin now myself. Can't believe I never tried it before since most of my compiling environments on windows were basically linux simulators. Depending on how much you want to change the source code you might want something like codeblocks for the heavy lifting so to speak. Jumping through various files in a project with no tools to jump you to right where you want to be can be a pain.
digerati1338:
Good text editors (code oriented) should be able to do that. Its must more hidden than in an IDE.
Rcdude10tc32:
Thanks guys,
its about time I get more into linux anyway, i've been poppin in live cds and not really doing anything with them for too long. Should be some fun.
Thanks again
-Justin
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