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Experimenting with Eclipse

Ubuntu has been garnering a lot of attention from Eclipse users of late, and Eclipse Evangelist Wayne Beaton refuses to be left behind. Beaton discusses his experience using Ubuntu in his new Dell Latitude D820 laptop.

The installation, he says was "painless": the Ubuntu CD boots your machine into a complete working Ubuntu desktop; from there you can install. Beaton installed Eclipse 3.3 M6 along with Mylar and Web Tools, the PHP Development Tools, and the XAMOO LAMPP stack-the combination of software to work on the eclipse.org website, he said. Beaton added that he moved his workspaces from his old Windows laptop, and they appear to be working fine in Ubuntu. He also installed Eclipse 3.3 RC2, and has stated to migrate his projects over to it.

Not everything, he says is hunky-dory though. Firstly he had trouble Skype to here him, a problem that was solved when he found the "Capture Mux" setting in the volume controls. He had trouble finding a driver specific to his laser printer. However, the worry, says Beaton is that he has not sorted out the wireless access since his hardware doesn't seem to support 802.11b, which could be problematic as he feels that a lot of places that he visits haven't moved on to later versions of the standard. He is, however sure that he'll be able to sort out the wireless.

The biggest obstacle was the e-maail. "At the start of this little experiment, I had about two years worth of email stored in Outlook. I installed Thunderbird 2.0 on my old laptop and used Thunderbird's import function to copy all my messages and addresses from Outlook. I then copied the resulting folders over to my home directory in Ubuntu. It worked flawlessly," says Beaton.

To conclude he says that while there are little things that bother him, the experience has been positive, and Ubuntu is definiltely very useful.

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