Once upon a time, I used to do a lot of GUI app development. My professional career started back in 1993 writing Windows 3.1 apps in C, and continued for several years, switching to C++ and using the MFC framework. But from about 1998 I found myself steadily doing less native GUI application development, [...]
The recent change of licencing model for the Qt toolkit got it a lot of press recently. My GUI-based development experience is all Windows based, using MFC and wxWidgets. As I’ve found myself using Ubuntu and OSX a lot more recently, the idea of using Qt to write software to run on Windows, Linux or [...]
Edit: There’s now a more thorough guide over at HowToForge
I started with a server install of Ubuntu, and to install VMWare server you need a desktop, a compiler, kernel headers and a few other odds and ends
Easy way to get a desktop is go the whole hog and a give a home to a Gnome…
sudo [...]
The #ubuntu IRC channel had over 1000 people eagerly awaiting today’s release. Looking forward to giving it a test drive – getting good download speeds from the torrents provided here.
