I will have a full-blown Mandrake 9.2 installed at work. I want to be able to floppy-copy my code, bring it home and do some development at home. At this time I don’t have a Linux box at home, and I really don’t want to install Mandrake on my home PC right now.
Can I somehow use MandrakeMove at home on my Windows laptop to do programming (C++)?
Cygwin can give you a shell environment on Windows. I’ve used it before and liked it very much for allowing me to work on scripts when only my wife’s computer was available.
That is assuming you are doing shell-scripting.
If you are programming in some other language, then MandrakeMove should certainly let you do it if the libraries are included on the cd
Should work. Can’t hurt to try.
Is it possible to do development under MandrakeMove? (Just trying one final bump, thanks.)
Dunno if you’re going to find anyone who’se tried it. Like leenmi said, just download it and give it a shot, what’s to lose? If it doesn’t work, on top of Cygwin I can recommend Knoppix.
If you are doing software development, and the tools are included on the livecd (say you are programming in C), then you should be able. Of course, you will need someplace to write your files.
So, if you are running the live cd on a system that normally boots Windows XP, then the NTFS file systems may be a sticking point. On the livecd, there will not be a way to write to the file systems on the different partitions.
Now, you can get around that by creating a partition that is a) FAT-whatever or b) unused and can be formatted something Linux friendly such as ext2 or ext3.
But when you ask if you can do software development using a livecd, the answer depends on what you mean by software development.
Shell scripts - Certainly
Graphical user interfaces using something like Glade or Tcl/TK - If the tools are on the cd. They might have been left off to conserve space/minimize size.
Programs to be compiled with gcc - Probably. If the gcc compiler is there (which is very likely) and the header files are included (which you would need to check).
See? It depends.
Ok, I’ll just give it a try. Thanks for the info.