OpenEuphoria

Re: quick cgi question

• Posted by Ryan W. Johnson <ryanj at fluidae.com> Mar 30, 2006
• 462 views

Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> > I've been thinking in getting a second computer and give
> > Linux a second try.  What distribution would you recomend?
> 
> My friends and I have come up with two terms for Linux users: those
> who want to "get in and drive" and those who want to "get under the
> hood."
> 
> If all you want to do is "get in and drive" then I suggest Ubuntu. If
> all you're concerned about is using Linux as an OS with having to
> compile anything, its great. However, setting up Euphoria is a hassle
> (environment variables don't work the same -- but I found a way around
> that).
> 
> If you'd like to "get under the hood" or at least start to, I suggest
> something typical like Mandrake 10.0 or Fedora Core 5 (or whatever the
> latest versions of those are).
> 
> If you're looking for the complete opposite of Ubuntu, look at Gentoo.
> On Gentoo, you have to compile *everything* from source, but its all
> packaged and dependancies are automatically handles (98% of the time).
> 
> <a href="http://www.ubuntu.org/">http://www.ubuntu.org/</a>
> <a href="http://www.fedoracore.org/">http://www.fedoracore.org/</a>
> <a href="http://www.mandrakelinux.org/">http://www.mandrakelinux.org/</a>
> <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/">http://www.gentoo.org/</a>
> 
> > Thanks Greg.  I'm using the exu from <a
> > href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/25/eubs=">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/25/eubs=</a>
> d25.zip
> > Since it is 492kb I'm assuming it is uncompressed.
> 
> Yes, the BSD executables are uncompressed. The Linux executables come
> compressed or uncompressed.

I use Fedora Core 4. I think it is very easy to install and use. It works with
all of my hardware so far. I haven't tried many of my USB devices though. But all
internal hardware works great. I also use KDE. There are great apps such as
x-chat, Kate (text editor which supports Euphoria syntax highlighting ), gFTP
(sweet FTP client), Quanta Plus (html editor), The GIMP, Open Office, Mozilla,
K3B (very nice CD/DVD burner), XMMS (winamp clone), etc. etc. And, if you want an
excellent DVD player, you can download Xine.

All of the major Linux distributions have come a long way since a few years ago,
so you might like it enough to ditch Windows like i have. 

~Ryan W. Johnson

Fluid Application Environment
http://www.fluidae.com/

[cool quote here, if i ever think of one...]