Moving In

Yesterday was a good day, the day bright and sunny and the air was just right. Just right to figure the right time evaluating the dev tools needed to setup the prototype app. It's narrowed down to just 2 SDKs and will probably decide in the next few days what will the dev platform be. One might call this effort 'moving in.'

Mandrake 8.2

Just bought Mandrake 8.2. Found there were something missing in the stock install, like GCC was not able to compile the hello world program. Gave out an error message. Will take it back to store and replace with another CD.

Speaking of distributions, it would probably be best to have a clean install, making sure the basic parts are working, though. This would eliminate the extra effort by users like who don't want to know to configure programs already covered by the distribution which is basically duplication of effort. Some users just want to get down to business and do the things they want to do, playing this vendor specific stuff should not be part of the users.

MDI on BeOS

Spent some time playing with the package downloaded from BeBits.