Kubuntu on IBM Laptop R51 .

I installed Kubuntu ( ubuntu with kde ) on my laptop IBM R51.

and i was totally SURPRISED .

• The ease of installation .
  • pop in the cd .
  • boot from cd/dvd drive .
  • it installs a live demo version .
  • after you login it installs full version from desktop ( with an icon click ! ).
  • 20 min for me .
• Wonderfull desktop with preloaded apps.
  • Standard office OpenOffice .
  • Mozilla fireFox browser .
  • everything else ( photo editing , media players ) .

• What i totally liked about it .
  • Wi-Fi works .
  • Hibernation and special keys on laptop works .
  • Flash drive , windows drives Automatic mount-unmount .
  • flat 20 min install . ( yes ) .
  • single CD install .
  • great package manager.
  • OUT – OF – BOX kind of OS .
• What sucked .
  • No support for MP3 files ( not really ubuntu’s fault get it from apt ).
  • No support for RPM packages ( this one should be there ) .

Java IDE’s : My Impression .

First and foremost .

There’s no point in learning an IDE ( or anything ) that’s not opensource ! .

( Java is soon going to be open sourced ).
why ?

As IDE’s aren’t just IDE’s but also have RCP. Wherein you could use

lot of IDE’s features ( File->open; etc ) in your own apps and sell it too,

and make money.

I’m working in Fujitsu Consultancy.

I in the course of 1 year tried three IDE’s and their numerous avatars.

1. Eclipse.

2. Netbeans.

3. Intellij.

4.JBuilder. ( haven’t used much ).

4.JDeveloper.

My Impression :

1. Eclipse :

1.1 . strong industry support. ( SAP , Oracle etc )
1.2 . callisto project looks promising.

1.3. Great RCP support.

1.4. Numerous plugin’s and extension. ( EXADEL ) for frameworks.

1.5. Good for platform specific app scenario.

2: NetBeans

2.1. Extreme productivity. ( Desktop app, mobile app, web app ).

2.2. Top technology features( SOA, UML, BPEL ).

2.3. Robust RCP , Pure java advantage.

2.4. Things run out of box .

2.5 Extremely good flash tutorials and demo.

2.6. Great Mobility pack and enterprise pack .

2.7 Good support for frameworks.

3 Intellij

3.1. Brilliant piece of work but closed source.

3.2. Great general purpose editing features and code assistance

but no big thing ( no struts support ( only in 6.0 ).

3.3. No new technology integration like BPEL, SOA etc.

I think NetBeans is best.

But Eclipse is catching up in terms of Integration productivity( linking a web , desktop ,

mobile app to SOA kind of thing with click of a mouse– netbeans has it ).