Aral Balkan

Time to put my laptop where my mouth is and start using an Open Source operating system to run my open source tools. Thus begins my (belated) journey into Linux. My companion for the ride will be Ubuntu Linux 5.10 (Breezy Badger). Nat is terribly passionate about Ubuntu and sold me on it after last month's d.construct conference.

In this series of posts, I'll chronicle my experiences in setting up Ubuntu for open source Flash development and more.

First step: Download the latest Ubuntu ISO.

Second step: Burn it to CD. Oops, I hit a snag on Windows XP: It doesn't know how to burn ISOs natively and I can't be arsed to locate the copy of Nero that came with my external Yamaha CD-Burner, back in the day. Oh, look, a nice chap by the name of Alex Feinman has a free powertoy called ISO Recorder v2. Downloaded that. Installs an option on the context menu in Windows explorer. Worked a charm.

Third step: Install Ubuntu on new laptop. About to try it now on one the Acer Travelmates that we use for training sessions...

Comments

• Ubuntu rules!
  
  I work with it for a few months and I'm very satisfied.
  
  I installed it yesterday on my laptop in a Virtual PC (I must keep Windows XP for my work) and it works great.
  
  Really fun to use FAME on a truly open-source environment! Unfortunately, there isn't yet Flash Player 8 available on this platform and Stand Alone Player doesn't exists.
  
  Good luck Aral :)

  by Stéphane Bebrone on 2005-11-30 15:39:28

• Ubuntu Breeze is very nice for the regular users. I've played with it for a couple of days and most of the typical tasks worked well. You can develop with AMES and you can even experiment with AS3 and mxmlc.jar. SAPlayer.exe 8.5 works with Wine, but I haven't tested it with complex code.
  
  Overall, a good distro that made me love apt-get. I'm going to replace it with a Debian because it's more adequate for my needs.

  by Rostislav on 2005-11-30 17:27:40