How to test drive development using Linux

How to test drive development using Linux

Cardell Rice

Choose a Linux Distribution

• The Ubuntu distribution was selected because of its popularity and community support.

• Ease of setup

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Can’t use old computer

• The computer has to have a CD Burner because the Ubuntu Linux distribution comes as an ISO image

• The computer has to be able to boot from both a CD and USB thumb drive.

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Can’t use old computer

• While Linux is suitable to run on older computers we are going to boot and run from a USB thumb drive

• Using a thumb drive will allow us to test drive the Linux OS without disturbing our current home or work Windows installation.

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Thumb Drive OS Setup

• Format the thumb drive Fat32

• Boot from the Ubuntu CD and insert the thumb drive.

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Thumb Drive OS Setup

• Ubuntu Linux will use the Casper utility to allow persistent storage on the thumb drive

• This will allow saving system configuration information, software application and drivers

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Native graphics drivers

• Most newer motherboards with built in graphics use Nvidia or Ati hardware

• The Ubuntu site has drivers for both of these manufacturers

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Other native graphics drivers

• Most other graphic card manufacturers support Linux and drivers can be found on there websites

• The reason for installing a native driver is faster GUI response and OpenGL

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Install native graphics driver

• Download the graphics driver from the manufactures website and install from the command line

• Install the graphics driver using the Synaptic Package Manager

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Applications

• Open Office that comes with the distribution has a word processor, spreadsheet and power point utility

• You can create files compatible with MS Office versions 97/2000/XP

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Wine

• Stands for (Win)dows (E)mulator

• Used to emulate both 16 and 32 bit widows applications

• Wine will run versions 6,6.5, and 7 of Lotus Notes

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Wine

• Wine will run versions 5,6, and 7 of IE

• Wine will run Office 2007

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Setup Development environment

• Install and configure Sun Java SDK as GNU java in installed by default

• Install Maven

• Install CVS/Subversion

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IDE’s

• Install Ubuntu compatible Eclipse 3.2 which is downloaded from the Ubuntu repository

• Install Netbeans 6.7 from Sun

• Install Flex Builder for Linux from Adobe

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Utilities

• VPN setup for linux OS information available on mapped network drives.

• Remote login built into Ubuntu distribution allows remote login to and from Linux systems.

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Remote Login

• NXServer utility can be used to allow remote login from Windows to Linux

• XWinLogon utility can also be used to allow remote login from Windows to Linux

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Web and Application Servers

• Jboss

• Tomcat

• WebLogic

• Apache

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LAMP

• “LAMP”, which stands for “Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP”

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Pros

• Persistent storage allows software and configuration to be saved

• Easy way to test drive linux on multiple computers.

• More efficient use of computer resources

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Cons

• No easy way of testing using Safari

• Likely use of older versions of Eclipse IDE

• Getting familiar with the Unix OS

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