Long time, no post!
The long weekend has given me some time to again tinker around with sandbox - my old desktop at home. It had been pretty much been sitting idle for sometime now.
Well, I have just upgraded my ubuntu distribution to 8.04 (Hardy Heron). And
8.10 is just couple of days away :). There was no urge as such to upgrade. However, I was tinkering with some open source projects (to keep myself grounded to coding :)) and I just was not able to compile because they insisted on glibc 2.16 or higher. And I was using the latest available glibc (2.14?) for the older ubuntu - 7.10.
Anyways, upgrade was a breeze over broadband except for the fact that one needs to have enough patience for the packages to download (took almost 4 hours for me). Also upgrade was an issue for older boxes like mine which does not have sufficient disk space.
As for development, I tried Ajunta IDE, which is an IDE for C/C++. It has some minor bugs (annoying for me) with customising the look n feel (fonts, colour, blah) and sudden crashes. I have not however created any new projects with it though, just used it as a means to browse the code. Feel the good old terminal, vim and gdb are way better for a person like me. Probably will take some time to get a hold on this IDE... However I dont like bloated IDEs like eclipse. Let me know if there are other better lean and mean IDEs out there...
