If you started imagining something from the title…it referred to my switch from the Red (Shrike) to Green (Suse) distro. It was worth the effort. For the first time since starting to hack on Evolution, I could debug e-d-s with gdb. If you are on Shrike and need to debug multi-threaded apps – you can end your woes by switching the distro. I was sceptical about this solution when i heard it earlier.. but seems to work. Emboldened by this, I went on to try my fave ide Eclipse on my test machine. It went through like a breeze.. CDT was a bit of a bother but I was soon comfortably back into serious work. Now, IDEs are a strict no-no for zealots and old-timers – but
I am happy here…heck, my employer does not starve me for RAM or a Pentium – i dont care if they are resource hogs..What matters is that I can get work done.
I have been a ‘pure’ Java guy and my foray into Linux or C is quite recent. I started off trying both vim and emacs (as most of the newbies do). Not like Eclipse or Netbeans, I had grown used to. Yet, they had their own charm. I devoured tutorials, tips on the Net and soon assembled an array of custom key mappings, macros and shortcuts. And running sed scripts from vim was another cool thing I loved. But debugging became a big bottleneck. Soon I began to miss my task reminders, bookmarks, saved debugging sessions and breakpoints. But Eclipse would not install on my Shrike and kept posing many problems..I decided it to give a shot again and was more successful this time. I went back to my ‘living room on the Desktop’ and forgot the editor, the IDE , the tools…all that I cared about was my work and getting it done.. Can’t complain much about that, can I ?