Hardware for Beginning Linux Programming

[fos]

My test bed for BLP is a Mini-ITX box based on a Via EPIA M-10000N mother board with 512 Megs of DDR ram, a 40 GB Hitachi Travelstar hard drive, and a Sony CDRW/DVD slim optical drive. Its all sutffed into a box about the size of the BLP text!

It is running Debian Sarge 3.1 GNU/Linux. I do just about everything on this box except the rare occaision when I have to export grades to the school from home. At that point, I am forced to drop the family computer up front out of Debian and run WinXP for that one proprietary grade package called IG Pro.

As you can tell, I'm a big fan of open source software. MS, Intel, Sun, IBM and the rest have their place. Without them, we wouldn't have all of theis commodity priced hardware to pluck off the shelf of a local outlet or over the internet.

How many of you remember the days when they talked about the mythical "under $1000" computer?

Fos...

[viator]

It says igpro works on the mac platform but not linux go figure... Have you tried running it under wine?
Wine works alot better than it did even a year ago. If you havent played with it lately give it a try. Or if your classroom pc is widows xp pro set up IIs on it and connect remotely :) youd have to leave it running though.

[fos]

I did try Wine with IG Pro. It wouldn't go. I only input grades from home when I'm behind the 8 ball.

The district network is down just about as much as it is up anyway. If it is running after school, I try to input grades, if it isn't, I head for home.

Thanks, Jeff