Mansour
Reputation: 1810
Isolated Development Environment
I'd like to ask for recommendations for a development environment with the following basic requirements:
- on recent Fedora (e.g. 13 or 14) GNU/linux distribution
- developing gtk+ apps with C
- isolated (installation of files shouldn't affect the main system's system files)
- allows for cheap snapshot of the entire development files
So far, the only two options I can think of are chroot jail and virtualized guest. I had a very hard time to get chroot jail to work properly with dbus (ended up snapshotting my entire system using btrfs). Also used recent VirtualBox which feels extra sluggish recently.
I would really like to know what the devs here use as their development environment.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 284
Answers (1)
Dylan Lukes
Reputation: 955
I personally use two virtualized OpenBSD (CLI only) and Debian (w/ GUI) environments with backups, so I just wipe them clean when I need too. I use VirtualBox or VMWare.
Upvotes: 1
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