A Great Development Configuration

My current development environment has to be the best configuration I’ve had to date in my development career.  Here are some of the specifics: HP EliteBook laptop (8730w) 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo 64-bit 6GB Memory openSuse 11.1 64-bit The move to Linux from Windows has been a huge plus, though not without its own challenges.  But it’s not just the hardware and OS.  Here are the tools that round out a highly productive development environment: