Just wanna hear your thoughts, opinions, hints, experiences :-)or just anything you would like to share regarding the issue we have here on migrating to Linux from Windows...We've been developing java apps for 3 years now using Windows platform since our end users are into Windows as well. The development team is indeed pretty much oriented of Windows on IDE, version control and other development tools. But as the company grows, license issue has become a problem financially and we cannot afford anymore of license fees . So here comes the awareness of the open source software and the impact of Linux as the operating system has provide us a best alternative that we might be migrating the OS from Windows. I heard about Linux basically but my worries are on the part of the development since the developers here aren't knowledgeable of developing Linux which might paralyze the whole production much longer, how long does the transition period take for the development team on learning Linux coming from Windows OS? Are there available development tools for Linux such as the version control, IDE, web development tools (like dreamweaver )etc.. ?
Migrating to linux should not be that difficult but your team will face "teething" troubles. The shell commands+file permissions etc. might take a bit of time to get used to but once that is done, it should be fairly easy as far as development is concerned. plenty of tools are available which will aid the development. IDE's, versioning system, build tools, databases etc. most tools are available on open source.
Sourceforge.com will be a good place for you to check out for open source stuff.
Is there something like a package on linux where i can download comprising the basic tools i need in the development? As i can see it seems like there are lots of tools available but it's kinda hard to find one which one best suits for another...I would be glad to know if there something such one that i can start playing on...
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