Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:25:51 -0800 From: "David Christensen" <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: "'FreeBSD Mailing List'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: system programming Message-ID: <00c001c8540a$0ce06da0$0a00a8c0@a64x23800p> In-Reply-To: <43628.50900.qm@web88309.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <43628.50900.qm@web88309.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
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Michael wrote:
> I am a computer science student taking the operating systems course.
> All of our assignments are supposed run on Linux and I don't have a Linux
machine.
I've taken programming classes and learned the hard way that the only way to
ensure that my software worked correctly on the teacher's machine was to
have a matching development environment. In practice, this can be very
expensive and/or time consuming to achieve. Fortunately, matching the Linux
distribution make, model, and version was sufficient.
Now there are more options -- notably, virtual machines. I suggest that you
ask your instructor to pick a free VMware Linux virtual appliance and that
the teacher and students all use that:
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/cat/45
HTH,
David
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