Never thought I would be saying that in my lifetime, but here I am nevertheless.  I have been running Linux on my laptop for almost a year now, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the flexibility it has offered me.  I weaned myself off of my old Windows XP VM a while back and have been living my daily development life exclusively in X Windows (Gnome).  My Gnome environment has exposed me to GnomeEdit, Compiz, CairoDock, [...]

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: