In article <ce5kea$25vg$2@digitaldaemon.com>, Berin Loritsch says...
>
>Phill wrote:
>
>> "me" <memsom@interalpha.co.uk> wrote in message news:ce1g92$2u8o$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> 
>>>"Phill" <phill@pacific.net.au> wrote in message news:cduuul$1e7c$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>>>
>>>>I use DIDE, its great and ive had no problems
>>>>with it.
>>>
>>>Unfortunately, the guy who wrote DIDE has withdrawn it and is planning to rewrite the IDE from scratch. Why we loose DIDE is beyond me, but this
>> 
>> seems
>> 
>>>to be one big whim on his part. Let's hope he sees sense ;-)
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> Is that true?
>> 
>> I am almost certainly migrating, so I will probably be using Ants LEDS.
>> 
>> Phill.
>
>LEDS?
>
>DIDE is gone, so unless someone has a spare copy that can be downloaded, the one on the site is gone.

So this is the big opportunity for leds to grab some market share! ;)

Charles, you shouldn't drop your users like that!

I'll be releasing a new leds version soon.
I'll take any help I can get for the windows version.
(the windows version is still not usable)

Ant

http://leds.sourceforge.net

Ant wrote:

> In article <ce5kea$25vg$2@digitaldaemon.com>, Berin Loritsch says...
> 
>>LEDS?
>>
>>DIDE is gone, so unless someone has a spare copy that can be downloaded,
>>the one on the site is gone.
> 
> 
> So this is the big opportunity for leds to grab some market share! ;)
> 
> Charles, you shouldn't drop your users like that!
> 
> I'll be releasing a new leds version soon.
> I'll take any help I can get for the windows version.
> (the windows version is still not usable)

Doh!

I'm using Windows :(

I have been told to migrate to a real OS many times, but its not an easy
transition.

Berin Loritsch wrote:
> 
> I have been told to migrate to a real OS many times, but its not an easy
> transition.

Especially if you ask about certain ones on this NG ;).

For you, and Phill, and all others, I recommend Gentoo Linux.  I don't want to start an off-topic thread / holy war about flavors of Linux, but for the newbies who are not terribly pressed for time, I think Gentoo is a great platform.

It is incredibly well-documented and if you choose to do the long install (from Stage 1), you will learn a tremendous amount about how Linux systems in general work.  It took me a weekend (on and off) to get my first system up and going, but I've done it in 8 hrs with an old PC, no fancy disk subsystem, etc.

And, after you have a Gentoo system up and running, the Portage system is a dream to work with.  Interdependencies are solved for you, and everything is built from scratch (but in an automated way).  You don't end up in Fedora/RedHat RPM dependency hell.  It's not quite as deep as Windows DLL hell, but it's down there as far as the circles go.


Just my US$0.02

Brad Anderson wrote:
> Berin Loritsch wrote:
> 
>>
>> I have been told to migrate to a real OS many times, but its not an easy
>> transition.
> 
> 
> Especially if you ask about certain ones on this NG ;).
> 
> For you, and Phill, and all others, I recommend Gentoo Linux.  I don't want to start an off-topic thread / holy war about flavors of Linux, but for the newbies who are not terribly pressed for time, I think Gentoo is a great platform.
> 
> It is incredibly well-documented and if you choose to do the long install (from Stage 1), you will learn a tremendous amount about how Linux systems in general work.  It took me a weekend (on and off) to get my first system up and going, but I've done it in 8 hrs with an old PC, no fancy disk subsystem, etc.
> 
> And, after you have a Gentoo system up and running, the Portage system is a dream to work with.  Interdependencies are solved for you, and everything is built from scratch (but in an automated way).  You don't end up in Fedora/RedHat RPM dependency hell.  It's not quite as deep as Windows DLL hell, but it's down there as far as the circles go.
> 
> 
> Just my US$0.02

Ive installed Fedora today and also the JDK, DMD, DUI everything looks ok so far.

I have a couple of even dumber questions than the one that I
asked the other day, but I dare not too here.

I didnt actually go cold turkey, instead I chickened out and partitioned
my HD, so I could still keep XP. At the moment I need it because there are a few things that I havent found yet, like something to play .mov files taken on my digital camera.

Thanks for the tip, I will keep it in mind if things get tough over here.

Phill.

Brad Anderson wrote:
> Berin Loritsch wrote:
> 
>>
>> I have been told to migrate to a real OS many times, but its not an easy
>> transition.
> 
> 
> Especially if you ask about certain ones on this NG ;).
> 
> For you, and Phill, and all others, I recommend Gentoo Linux.  I don't want to start an off-topic thread / holy war about flavors of Linux, but for the newbies who are not terribly pressed for time, I think Gentoo is a great platform.
> 
> It is incredibly well-documented and if you choose to do the long install (from Stage 1), you will learn a tremendous amount about how Linux systems in general work.  It took me a weekend (on and off) to get my first system up and going, but I've done it in 8 hrs with an old PC, no fancy disk subsystem, etc.
> 
> And, after you have a Gentoo system up and running, the Portage system is a dream to work with.  Interdependencies are solved for you, and everything is built from scratch (but in an automated way).  You don't end up in Fedora/RedHat RPM dependency hell.  It's not quite as deep as Windows DLL hell, but it's down there as far as the circles go.
> 
> 
> Just my US$0.02
Ive installed Fedora today and also the JDK, DMD, DUI everything looks ok so far.

I have a couple of even dumber questions than the one that I
asked the other day, but I dare not too here.

I didnt actually go cold turkey, instead I chickened out and partitioned
my HD, so I could still keep XP. At the moment I need it because there are a few things that I havent found yet, like something to play .mov files taken on my digital camera.

Thanks for the tip, I will keep it in mind if things get tough over here.

Phill.

In article <41078BF9.4000001@pacific.net.au>, Phill says...
>
>Ive installed Fedora today and also the JDK, DMD, DUI everything looks ok so far.

What? you say DUI doesn't come standard and doesn't install by default? I better call the guys...

Ant

Phill wrote:


> 
> I didnt actually go cold turkey, instead I chickened out and partitioned my HD, so I could still keep XP. At the moment I need it because there are a few things that I havent found yet, like something to play .mov files taken on my digital camera.

Try with mplayer or GUI derivatives (gmplayer, kmplayer, etc.)

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:20:25 +1000, Phill <phill@pacific.net.au> wrote:

> Brad Anderson wrote:
>> Berin Loritsch wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have been told to migrate to a real OS many times, but its not an easy
>>> transition.
>>
>>
>> Especially if you ask about certain ones on this NG ;).
>>
>> For you, and Phill, and all others, I recommend Gentoo Linux.  I don't want to start an off-topic thread / holy war about flavors of Linux, but for the newbies who are not terribly pressed for time, I think Gentoo is a great platform.
>>
>> It is incredibly well-documented and if you choose to do the long install (from Stage 1), you will learn a tremendous amount about how Linux systems in general work.  It took me a weekend (on and off) to get my first system up and going, but I've done it in 8 hrs with an old PC, no fancy disk subsystem, etc.
>>
>> And, after you have a Gentoo system up and running, the Portage system is a dream to work with.  Interdependencies are solved for you, and everything is built from scratch (but in an automated way).  You don't end up in Fedora/RedHat RPM dependency hell.  It's not quite as deep as Windows DLL hell, but it's down there as far as the circles go.
>>
>>
>> Just my US$0.02
> Ive installed Fedora today and also the JDK, DMD, DUI everything looks ok so far.
>
> I have a couple of even dumber questions than the one that I
> asked the other day, but I dare not too here.
>
> I didnt actually go cold turkey, instead I chickened out and partitioned
> my HD, so I could still keep XP.

I chickened out even further, my linux install runs in a virtual machine. VMware is sooo coool.

> At the moment I need it because there are a few things that I havent found yet, like something to play .mov files taken on my digital camera.
>
> Thanks for the tip, I will keep it in mind if things get tough over here.



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Juanjo Álvarez wrote:
> Phill wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>I didnt actually go cold turkey, instead I chickened out and partitioned
>>my HD, so I could still keep XP. At the moment I need it because there
>>are a few things that I havent found yet, like something to play .mov
>>files taken on my digital camera.
> 
> 
> Try with mplayer or GUI derivatives (gmplayer, kmplayer, etc.)
> 
Thanks, I will try them!

Phill.

Ant wrote:
> In article <41078BF9.4000001@pacific.net.au>, Phill says...
> 
>>Ive installed Fedora today and also the JDK, DMD, DUI everything looks ok so far.
> 
> 
> What? you say DUI doesn't come standard and doesn't install by default?
> I better call the guys...
> 
> Ant
> 
> 
Are you saying that DUI comes standard with Fedora?
That is a surprise, considering D doesnt, or dont tell
me D is also standard?

Phill.