Humanity to others

Sunday, February 20th, 2005 | Personal

I was taking a look at the progress of the Mono WinForms roadmap and I thought I might consider contributing a few controls of the missing, but since mono is primarily developed on linux and that Cairo (the vector graphics library) seems to be primarily developed on linux as well, I’d better pick up a linux distribution. Now, I’ve run Linux (excuse me GNU/Linux) before and to quote the Hot Shots movies: I am no stranger to pain. Now, the great question in linux-land is: which distribution? So picking pseudo-randomly by asking in my irc channel, I came up with the answer: ubuntu, as no one had tried it yet in there.

Here I am, running ubuntu (which means ‘humanity to others’) and while it was pleasing to set up compared to RedHat 2.0 (yes it’s a while ago), there are some shortcomings and I have had some soundcard woes as I have multiple soundcards, but those are tales for another time. Overall I am pleased at the progress, but there is still some way to go to get to the usability levels I am used to from Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, but granted, I have a lot of choice and it is rather interesting to hack away on the themes.

Now, if ONLY there was an IDE in lieu with Visual Studio I might even consider adopting this thing for more frequent use. But what is the customary thing to do in linux-land, yes, write it yourself! Let’s see, I might get enamoured by GTK# and feel like taking a stab at progressing MonoDevelop. Only the future can tell.

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