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#21 — Author comment /* 9 months, 15 days ago */

are you going to abandon asp.net

Maybe.

The problem I have with saying yes, is I've got a massive time investment in this site's backend. It's a great engine that requires minimal work to keep it going and it's nice to template for. I still have a copy of XP that I can boot to through VMWare. I also use this quite a lot for webdeisgn because it runs Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks etc reliably.

I don't have too much care for Rails because I consider ASP.NET a genuinely good framework. It's fast and powerful, supporting multiple languages. It's only downfall is that it relies on IIS.

I think my most likely exit plan (for new programming) is through Mono, the open source replacement for .net. I can still use VS.NET with it (because I still consider it one of the best programming IDEs in existence). For webdev, I'll continue to use PHP for smaller projects and *I-don't-know-what-yet* for the larger ones -- perhaps a php framework like CakePHP.

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Oli Numero Uno

#22 /* 9 months, 14 days ago */

Can Someone who is on the development team of Linux please tell me why Wine (or other windows emulating software) is not put on to the disk automaticly, i have to download the dam thing and why access to NTFS for read/WRITE is not standard (i have to down load the thing abnd there is sometime a problem with the write access). Me and other people want to move away from the Windows thing but have these programs that work in windows, if they can work on a standard linux edition that would be nice ;-)

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PinPoland Normal User

#23 /* 9 months, 14 days ago */

Can Someone who is on the development team of Linux please tell me why Wine (or other windows emulating software) is not put on to the disk automaticly, i have to download the dam thing and why access to NTFS for read/WRITE is not standard (i have to down load the thing abnd there is sometime a problem with the write access). Me and other people want to move away from the Windows thing but have these programs that work in windows, if they can work on a standard linux edition that would be nice ;-)

For one, WINE is completely seperate from the Kernel (that is linux) and must be packaged by the distribution (such as Ubuntu) to be included. Most do include it but some don't. Often times for good reason. NTFS r/w capability wasn't fully tested and "stable" for quite a while (it could eat your data) and there was also lingering copyright issues surrounding it as well. Again, its up to a distro to include and enable it.

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Chris K Normal User

#24 — Author comment /* 9 months, 14 days ago */

As Chris says, "Linux" and what you use when you download a distribution (eg: Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, etc) are run by different people. This is why each distribution has a slightly different selection of installed packages. If you can't find one with Wine and NTFS-3g support, I desperately suggest you try Ubuntu.

Wine isn't included but it is very easy to install, either from the universe repository or Wine's own repo.

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Oli Numero Uno

#25 /* 45 days, 6 hours ago */

It bears noting that FileHippo has now partially resolved Issue #2; they now offer an Update Checker for all the programs they offer for download. However, it merely checks for the presence of updates; you still need to manually download and install each one.

Also, a wonderful SourceForge project has gotten Issue #3 partially resolved: http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/index.htm

'Course, it would still be nice if Microsoft provided proper answers to all these problems.

Cross me and be thagomized.

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