Re: [Boost-users] Recommend Unix Compiler and Unix Platform?

From: Rupert Bruce (rupert_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-26 14:10:01

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> Can someone recommend a good compiler and platform (Unix Variant)?  I've 
> noticed that the following seem to be pretty popular for web servers.  To keep 
> things easy, I guess that I'd be using a specific variant for both development 
> and web server:
> 
> FreeBSD, Fedora, Ubantu, and CentOS.

I am using Fedora on my laptop and Ubuntu on my desktop and I've come
down in favour of Ubuntu merely for the simplicity of choosing packages
using Synaptic. Ubuntu is a debian derivative and works really nicely
(we use it on all our servers, too). Fedora is RedHat based and uses Yum
for package updates which is slower and has a silly conflict between
repositories (livna and freshrpm) which you're better off avoiding.

As for C++ development environments, I use Eclipse CDT simply because of
the code editor which I've been using for years (I migrated back to C++
from Java for performance) but I was impressed by the instant
gratification of using Ultimate++ (http://www.ultimatepp.org/) for GUI
applications. Another contender from the C++ side is Anjuta
(http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/) and from the Web side, there's Bluefish
(http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/)

For all of these, I think it's safe to say that your compiler under the
covers is gcc/g++.
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