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A.6 Software Development
This section introduces Linux IDEs, toolkits, development tools, and versioning systems for
professional software development.
Table A-6
Task
Integrated
Development
Environments
Toolkits
Compilers
170 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 GNOME User Guide
Nautilus is the default file manager of the GNOME desktop. It can be used to create folders and
documents, display and manage your files and folders, run scripts, write data to a CD, and open
URI locations. For an introduction to using Nautilus as a file manager, see GNOME User
Guide. Find information about Nautilus on the Internet at
(http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/).
Taper is a backup and restore program that provides a friendly user interface to allow backup
and restoration of files to and from a tape drive. Alternatively, files can be backed up to archive
files. Recursively selected directories are supported. Find more information at
taper.sourceforge.net
(http://taper.sourceforge.net/).
vim (vi improved) is a program similar to the text editor vi. Users may need time to adjust to
vim, because it distinguishes between command mode and insert mode. The basic features are
the same as in all text editors. vim offers some unique options, like macro recording, file format
detection and conversion, and multiple buffers in a screen. Find more information at
www.vim.org
(http://www.vim.org/).
GNU Emacs and XEmacs are very professional editors. XEmacs is based on GNU Emacs. To
quote the GNU Emacs Manual, "Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-
time display editor." Both offer nearly the same functionality with minor differences. Used by
experienced developers, they are highly extensible through the Emacs Lisp language. They
support many languages, like Russian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Find more
information at
www.xemacs.org (http://www.xemacs.org/)
(http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html).
Xpdf is lean PDF viewing suite for Linux and Unix platforms. It includes a viewer application
and some export plug-ins for PostScript or text formats. Find more information at
www.foolabs.com/xpdf
(http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/).
Development Software for Windows and Linux
Windows
Application
Borland C++,
Delphi, Visual
Studio, .NET
MFC, Qt, GTK+
VisualStudio
Linux
Application
KDevelop, Eric,
Eclipse,
MonoDevelop,
Anjuta
Qt, GTK+
GCC
www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus
and
www.gnu.org/software/emacs
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