Moving development to Linux
In an effort distance myself from all Windows based machines I have recently moved my main development machine to Ubuntu Linux. While the change has not exactly been seamless, I would say it has been fairly painless.
My main concern in moving to Ubuntu was the fact I primarily use wireless networking at home or at the office. When I do not have a wireless network available I also use my Sprint Mobile Broadband adapter which concerned me because I use it quite a bit. Doing a little digging around it was actually quite easy to configure the Sierra Wireless 595U adapter in Linux.
Next I just have to get the development environments working. Hopefully it will be just as painless getting Eclipse to work as getting the rest of the hardware setup.
ColdFusion installs and run on Linux very well - though I can't seem to install the latest 8.x updater. If you have any questions feel free to email me!
Thanks Jim, I appreciate it. I may have to take you up on it.
You can install Eclipse easily from the package manager. However, I'd recommend that you just download the latest version from Eclipse.org. The version in the package manager is only 3.2 and they're up to 3.3 now. It installs the same as on Windows: Just unzip it to a directory and run the main executable.
