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[ASJ]

a small question for yob: may I ask which version of suse you are using at the moment (and which you decided to get rid of) ? I have been trying to get the svn version of codeblocks compiling on SuSE 10 but without succes....

Maybe I should get a really recent version and try again?

[yop]

a small question for yob: may I ask which version of suse you are using at the moment (and which you decided to get rid of) ? I have been trying to get the svn version of codeblocks compiling on SuSE 10 but without succes....

Maybe I should get a really recent version and try again?

Who is yob anyway? Everybody is mispelling my name in Greek now it's my username :lol:
Anyway I'm using Suse 9.3 (I haven't installed 10.00 because I 'm too lazy to install icc and vtune again) and I want to change because I find it too restrictive for my taste. I'll probably give ubuntu a shot or if I'm in the mood gentoo. Whatever problems you have you can ask, I think we 'll get it to build. For me I just followed the wiki instructions to build wxWidgets and Code::Blocks back when cvs was still used. Now as I'm a bit more experienced with C::B code I can generally recognize some errors and correct them so almost every time I update I can also build.

[ASJ]

well it seems that taking the latest svn version I could get (2012)  solved already most of my problems. The only thing I came across was the fact that I tried to make in a directory containing a space in it's name. Although for the largest part this is no problem, I got errors compiling. Making in a directory without spaces in it's name solved this problem and codeblocks compiled smoothly (without the contributed plugins)
Now I'll redo the procedure to try to get the contributed plugin as well...

[yop]

The only thing I came across was the fact that I tried to make in a directory containing a space in it's name.

This is not a good habbit, stop it (even in windows) while it's early
I'm glad you built out of the box

[ASJ]

you're right....
it cost me quite a bit of time (couple of weeks on and off)

By the way, including the contributed plugins it also compiles out of the box!!
and the new looks great!
Time to try it out!

[Michael]

[...]I want to change because I find it too restrictive for my taste. I'll probably give ubuntu a shot or if I'm in the mood gentoo. Whatever problems you have you can ask, I think we 'll get it to build. For me I just followed the wiki instructions to build wxWidgets and Code::Blocks back when cvs was still used.

Sorry for the question a bit off-topic, but I have not really understood what you meant by

[...]I'll probably give ubuntu a shot or if I'm in the mood gentoo.

I am interested in using Linux (Windows is boring me and the huge choice of distributions make me the task not easy. If you can tell me what do you think about ubuntu and gentoo, I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Michael

[sethjackson]

Well Gentoo is kewl. It takes awhile to setup, but you get more control. I have used Kubuntu, and I hated it.  I used KDE (therefore Kubuntu) for my desktop. I couldn't figure out how to get KDE back to the "factory" default. With Gentoo it (KDE) is at "factory" default. I think (this is my opinion no offense to anyone) that the people behind the ubuntu distro's are making it easy for people to switch to Linux. So my choice is Gentoo out of those two.

[Michael]

Thank for your reply .

Personally, I was thinking about ubuntu and/or gentoo. May be Debian too. I like the philosophy of ubuntu. Years ago, I have had a bad experience with a RedHat distribution.

Anyway, I have to investigate more, before taking a decision (and I have also to wait until I get a new computer .

Michael

[sethjackson]

RedHat based stuff is terrible IMO.  :lol: :lol: I tried Fedora Core awhile back, and I hated it.... Mandrake (Mandrivia whatever) is well for new Linux users..... I don't like it either.  Never tried Debian (well ubuntu really isn't Debian).....

[Michael]

RedHat based stuff is terrible IMO.  :lol: :lol:

RedHat was quite ok at that time (year 2000 ). What was terrible was when I decided to change the screen resolution. The OS modified the keyboard layout too. After several days in trying to re-change it, I decided to re-install RedHat again .

Michael

[thomas]

RedHat (and Fedora) have been loyally serving me for one decade on a wide range of hardware. Some of my machines were high-end hardware, while I literally pulled the parts for some others out of the dustbin! RedHat did them all just fine without any problems. My internet gateway is still a Fedora machine today.

Maybe RedHat/Fedora is not the top performer in every respect, but hey... it works out of the box, and it works for years.

[yop]

Maybe RedHat/Fedora is not the top performer in every respect, but hey... it works out of the box, and it works for years.

Nowadays most of them do... It's more a matter of personal taste and habbit I guess with rare exceptions (most of them in work enviroments). Anyway I've been using suse for quite a while and I am used to it but I want to get out of rpm based distros (so fedora is out also). Ubuntu has great comments from everyone, while Gentoo has the largest community and the best documentation (imagine gentoo without any docs :lol: ) but it requires a lot of reading, dedication and time to get working the way it is supposed to (and for Gentoo that is the way you want it to).