What do you think...

What VB programmers think about Linux?
And what linux distribution is the best?

[JoshT]

Well, in about a month I'm planning on building myself a dual-boot Win98SE / Linux machine for home. I'm planning on buying the cheapest version of the newest version of Red Hat Linux, and setting up Apache, Perl, PHP, and MySQL.

I also would love to be running Win2000 Server at home, bit it costs too much money...

Josh

It would be great if there is a possibility to code Linux with a basic language and visually...Just like Visual Basic.

I would have Linux, but I don't have the space to install it...

I have both FULL RETAIL versions of Mandrake and redhat linux. Mandrake is the better of the two as far as installation goes. Nicer interface.

Linux is nothing more then a server. If you alter the language a bit you could do more. But it's NOT user friendly if you are not used to unix/linux based machines. It's got a TOUGH learning curve.

I used it for a server. It's great! Beats MS. Never had to reboot. But, like I said.. that's really what linux is about. A server.

Knight

[Stephenb]

There is a version of Delphi that runs on Linux. From what I understand it is a lot like VB. (I have not used Delphi, so cannot give proof positive on the above statement. )

VB is still based around the basic language, Delphi is more C++ orientated. Yes there is a port to linux. Also check the web there is a vb like language which runs on linux.

We don't support Linux because it is a hackers heavan. If you think hacking into Unix is no problems, wait until you can actually log into a linux box and hack the kernel. For a stand alone machine no problems, has some great free/cheap programs avail with choice of different IOs. Cool!!!!!!! Am at the moment getting samba to work on a linux box in our development network, but this is only intended for non-contactable machines, i.e no modem attached to the box and no sharing between the box and internet.

[Jop]

Well I have Delphi 4, and it seems like VB, more then C++

If tEdit.text = '5' then
    tEdit.text := 'yep!'
;

or something like that

I wasn't able to create depency free executables, altough it should be possible..
you have delphi Jethro?
Please lemme know how you managed to create exe's which doesn't need depencies, thanx.