It’s been years since I developed software on anything other than a windows box. Now, as Alfresco begins to gain traction and our community grows, it’s obvious that no single platform is a clear leader for either development or deployment. Alfresco source code is 99.9% Java which has obviously helped attraction in all environments. However, as we provide an open source offering, the idea of operating in a completely free stack, from OS to database to application server to application to browser is very appealing. Hence, I shall dip into this idea by first enabling dual boot Windows/Linux on my development laptop. Of course, I shall follow my colleagues lead and learn from his experiences posted here.
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Luis | 04-Mar-06 at 5:35 am | Permalink
I’ve had too much trouble with Linux on a laptop, so I opt for running Linux within VMWare. The performance is adequate for running Alfresco and Eclipse and I don’t have to worry about dual boot. In fact, when I’m at home, I plug in an extra monitor and run my VMWare image full screen on it while I use the laptop screen for Windows. Possibly the next best thing to having a dedicated machine.
david | 06-Mar-06 at 10:04 am | Permalink
Having fought the hard way, I too have now gone for the VMWare option - in fact the site has a number of pre-bundled environments including KDE on SUSE 10 OSS which is now on my laptop. Very easy. If I want a different flavour of Linux (for diagnostic purposes) they pretty much have the main options -
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/community.html.
And yes, I’m aware vmware is an EMC company