Re: Threading in VB
- From: Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:42:37 -0700
On 2009-08-19, Dos-Man 64 <ChairShot@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 18, 8:33 pm, Tom Shelton <tom_shel...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 2009-08-19, Dos-Man 64 <ChairS...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 18, 7:52 pm, Tom Shelton <tom_shel...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
For instance, on my gentoo systems, installing eclipse is pretty much just:
root #> emerge eclipse
That's it. It will figure out all the dependencies for me, download them, and
compile them (since gentoo is a source based system, for the most part) for
me.
Someone in a linux group gave me similar advice, but it just didn't
work out. Things don't stay the same forever. At some point, I might
get a DSL line up there. I was actually hesitant to do so because
Windows 98 isn't the most secure OS in the history of the Internet ;)
Ah, no. you install it ot your local home directory and you have that as a
usb mount. Almost all live distro's have that option now.
I haven't been able to figure out how to create a knoppix image on
these 2 gig SD cards I just bought, but I did figure out how to save
user-defined settings to the SD card, and all files on the desktop (as
well as set up a swap file.)
Also, what happens if you format your hard drive and discover that
your favorite programming tool is no longer available for download? I
couldn't find a copy of Kylix anywhere. Makes sense to use it since I
love Delphi so much. Now I realize why nobody has a copy of it:
Nobody could figure out what files composed the package to manually
download it and burn everything to a CD for long term storage. It's as
if it never existed....
Kylix doesn't exist because no one supports it anymore -it's a dead language.
Oh, come on. There are a lot of dead languages. They still exist. You
could download Quickbasic right now from a billion different sites (It
was released as freeware about 5 years ago.) It's Delphi for linux.
What a beautiful thing. Somebody please hook me up with a copy!
Well, I meant tool - not language. Kylix was a proprietary product, and it
didn't last. Since it wasn't foss, it died when borland stoped supporting it.
As for your other problem - well, it's quite easy to solved on gentoo.
root #> emerge -Dp fpc
that will list all the needed packages - then go to a computer with internet
access, download the packages from the gentoo online database. Bring them
home, and copy them to your /usr/portage/distfiles diretory and then run
root #> emerge fpc
And if you want to you can have the system build you binary package of the
entire thing which you can then copy to a cd or something.
Your problem is that you don't really understand linux or package managment -
if you did you'd realize that where there is a will there is a way.
--
Tom Shelton
Yes. I have a lot to learn about Linux. Honestly, if I was a "typical
user", I would have switched to Linux a LONG time ago. I stuck around
at least 5 years longer than I would have. The fact that I know a lot
about the APIs for both Windows and DOS and am able to write software
with a million different languages was one of the things that really
kept me from moving over. I didn't want to start over.
Which is another reason that runtime languages are so popular and portable.
--
Tom Shelton
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