Suggestions anyone?

[sudilav]

I have recently moved onto linux operating systems and figured i'd start with a language i know very well, java. My only problem now is i dunno what to build. So, please post a program which would be useful to you and i'll try and replicate a program for you guys :).

It will be available on torrentvault, open signups are currently in play there.

[1cooldude]

cute ploy mate.:1244:

[YWD67]

Linux OS
The OS is short for Oh Shit. That is what you say alot when you switch to it.

[RACKnRAIL]

Linux OS
The OS is short for Oh Shit. That is what you say alot when you switch to it.

Honestly, I used to think like that. I suggest trying SimplyMepis or Ubuntu and you maybe pleasantly surprised.


As for an app...how about Dogster? Maybe you could finally get that program to work.

[TFoS_Fan]

Linux OS
The OS is short for Oh Shit. That is what you say alot when you switch to it.

Yeah your right..."oh shit, why have I been using Windows crap for so long" lol. Though generally Linux users don't swear much, as we have a relatively varied vocabulary. Btw I know a lot of Windows users who go "oh shit" when they get a virus...this is not something I have ever seen a Linux user do.

Anyway, futile OS bragging and mockery aside, I would suggest helping out with a current open source application, rather than starting from scratch, as there is likely to already be an open source application for nearly everything you would want to develop. However many of these applications are not mature, so your input would no doubt be useful/ worthwhile. How many of them are coded in Java is another matter...but if your good with Java I am sure you could pick up other languages such as Python pretty fast.

[sudilav]

Wait... i have to learn python? God, i have spent my life trying to avoid learning that language... i know C++, C#, JAVA and always thought that was enough... I'll scour the web for any projects, i have joined the fedora project.

[TFoS_Fan]

Wait... i have to learn python? God, i have spent my life trying to avoid learning that language... i know C++, C#, JAVA and always thought that was enough... I'll scour the web for any projects, i have joined the fedora project.

Oh no, your fine, you know C++. There are some Java applications out there for Linux (just not that many). You don't need to learn yet another language if you know that many. C# is useful as well if you use it with mono libraries. Banshee, the music player, I believe is coded in C#. That would be a good project to work on. http://banshee-project.org/contribute/write-code/. Perhaps further improving the podcasting support or working on one the goals they have set for their next release?

[sudilav]

Thanks, this really helps. I have never worked on an open source project.. i haven't programmed in C++ in ages but i remember most of the stuff, the annoying functions that took agesssss :). I will check out the project then.

[TFoS_Fan]

Thanks, this really helps. I have never worked on an open source project.. i haven't programmed in C++ in ages but i remember most of the stuff, the annoying functions that took agesssss :). I will check out the project then.

Yeah be sure to let us know how you get on and what you end up coding.

[Signa]

Quite frankly, all the smug linux users stroking each other off lately is all the reason I need to never try Linux.

[Tic3]

What...you don't like being stroked?

[Signa]

I would if I was a Linux user.

[sudilav]

lol, i'm sorry, i'm currently baked. But... wer did stroked come from? Anyway, so far i've made, like, cross-language programs. It is a TCP/IP Java Client, and then a C# TCP/IP Server, the C# Server will reside on my windows laptop, and the client on linux... For now... i'm having trouble running java on the linux and even then, the java client can only write to the server, not read, (one-way comm). this is mainly cos InputStreams... well, i don't know how event listen for new read bytes from stream. i have a while(true) thread for specifically constantly reading from the stream and writing it to my Jlist1's model..

Dunno whether you understand all that, but i kinda need help with that :P. I have no idea about media players but will get round after this personal project, to tell everyone to stop using my laptop... remotely :).