[mdlug] What to give a Software Programmer interested in Linux

[Jeff Hanson]

On Dec 2, 2007 10:21 PM, Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net> wrote:
>         Actually it gets much more interesting, he's also supposed to
> learn Perl. At any rate I dropped off my little care package, on the
> laptop he found the terminal right away.

I don't know much about Perl.  If he is going to be doing any C# or
Java cross-platform stuff then Mainsoft (www.mainsoft.com) has a lot
of tools including plug-ins for Visual Studio.

>         On that note, on his company supplied laptop he's not allowed
> to load anything. Ditto for the customer supplied laptop. Not even in a
> virtual machine, under threat of dismissal! Yet he's supposed
> to.........??? I could see where even a live cd  would be
> misconstrued. Seems like the perfect arguement for a true root/user
> system!

There are several companies that provide hosted systems with ssh and
vnc access that can be used for development.  Search with Google for
"dedicated hosting linux account development ssh vnc".