Does anybody know what the dominant O/S for Japanese Ruby users is? I'm
wondering if it's Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, whatever?
Just curious.
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Robert
I'm American, not Japanese, but in case you're curious, I run WinXP for web browsing and such, but I use FreeBSD 4.10 for development. I do everything from the command line.
I use Textpad on windows to edit source files, and I upload them and then build them on the freebsd machine. I use the GUI stuff I like, and I get to backup everything as part of the process as well. It's nice to have seperate "work" and "build" machines, since I usually push my "work" machine pretty hard with all the multi-tasking I'm doing. The FreeBSD machine is more or less dedicated to builds.
Ruby programming doesn't usually involve a build step, but I've carried the habit over anyways, so that I can ensure cross platform compatibility.
FreeBSD is better for me because I like the way everything seemlessly works together. I prefer the minimalist approach whenever it ensures smoother operation. Linux is too "busy" for me, and I hate fixing problems.
Robert Oschler wrote:
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Does anybody know what the dominant O/S for Japanese Ruby users is? I'm
wondering if it's Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, whatever?Just curious.
I also am not a Japanese user, but I run ruby on my G4 Powerbook. Ruby
is included in the factory installation of OSX 10.3 ("Panther"), and my
Mac has beautiful kana and kanji support (i.e., Japanese sites and mp3
data work nicely).
I've also run Ruby on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux (Gentoo & Debian), but
I can't vouch for their non-English character set support.
HTH,
Tim Hammerquist
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Robert Oschler <no_replies@fake_email_address.invalid> wrote:
Does anybody know what the dominant O/S for Japanese Ruby users is?
I'm wondering if it's Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, whatever?Just curious.
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Hi,
At Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:43:25 +0900,
Robert Oschler wrote in [ruby-talk:103855]:
Does anybody know what the dominant O/S for Japanese Ruby users is? I'm
wondering if it's Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, whatever?
Just my guess, it would be Windows, and Linux, NetBSD and
FreeBSD for developers.
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Nobu Nakada
plenty of other non japanese people are
joining in. so i'll go for it too 
i win by using the strangest setup of them all.
gentoo running in colinux on my windows xp laptop.
has been my setup now for months, and honestly
i've never been more productive. putty, opera
and mplayer are all i'll ever need
Alex