what unix, linux c/c++ to buy

[gaf at gaf.ne.mediaone.net (Jerry Feldman)]

john nenninger <Jhn333 at aol.com> sent a message to the group. 
I will start by answering him. 
There are several good distributions of Linux. Mandrake 7.0, Red Hat 6.2, 
and SuSE 6.4 are al reasonably good and complete versions of Linux, and all 
contain the gcc C compiler and G++ C++ compiler. Editors and debuggers are 
also contained. All of the above are easy to install. The LILO boot manager 
is capable of booting DOS.  I would also get a good book on C and C++ as 
well as Linux. Harvey Deitel's books are excellent as are Lar Kaufmann's 
Linux and Windows can live on the same system if you have enough disk 
space.  You don't need Borland of Microsoft to learn C or C++. The compiler 
on Windows are visually oriented, which makedeveloping programs easy, but 
they are not good for learning the language.
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I am currently reading  a beginning UNIX book, and a beginning LINUX book.  
I
will start a class next month on C and UNIX. I like to however start 
teaching
by self . I would like to buy a UNIX and LINUX operation system for my home 
PC. using system command as by re-booting software. By the end of this year 
my goal is to know c/c++ on unix and linux. I have oracel 8.4 currenly on 
my
PC and thinking about buying borland 5.0 c++ because of the oracle 8.4 
link.
some people have said that I should buy micorsoft c++ 6.0 . what do you 
think? 

thank you
john nenninger


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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org




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