What operating system do you develop on ? (Poll)

[Chris Boss]

This poll is about what operating system you develop on. Its not about what operating systems your software will run on, but what operating system you have PowerBasic and EZGUI (designer) installed on when you write your software.

This is a very important poll, so please, if all EZGUI users can add their answers to it.

I want to make sure there are no issues developing with EZGUI on Vista or Windows 7, so I need to see how actually develop on them.

[Rod Gobby]

Hi Chris

None of the above!!!!!!!! We do all our development on Ubuntu systems, and there's not a Windows machine in sight.

Our program files, and all the EZGUI 5 and PB 10 files, are installed on standard Ubuntu drives. We use the Linux Geany IDE program for editing and compiling our programs, but for batch compiles we use standard MS BAT files running in a Linux terminal.

All this happens through the magic of Wine, which runs seamlessly behind the scenes. In fact, Windows and Linux applications run so smoothly together on the same desktop, it's easy to forget that they're not all Linux applications.

In effect, though, we're running in an XP mode. However, in order to make our applications operate smoothly, on both Windows and Linux, we use Linux fonts for all GUI and printing functions.

Rod