[plug] Linux developement

[Hook]

> Greetings.
>
> First, let me apologise for my telstra rant.  I shouldn't have gone
overboard
> - sorry.  It won't happen again!  :)

Understandable at times though :-)

> Second, I'm a linux convert, and am mentally preparing to shift to running
> linux at home full time.  Currently, I bounce between linux and win2000.
I'm
> a computer programmer by profession, and that's what I'm interested in
under
> Linux.
>
> So I've got a howto question.  Currently, I do all my work under /usr/src.
> The trouble is that I can't write to this directory it from my normal
> account, and need to su to root.  This can't be right though, I think.  Or
is
> the standard way of developing programs under linux to run all the tools
as
> root?  How do you profession linux programmers work?

How about creating a user bradley, with src and bin directories? The tools
will be
available to the user as well as root, and you're protected against some of
the more
embarassing mistakes (which I for one have made from time to time).

> Also, I need some help getting a handle on GUI development.  What are some
of
> the standard resources for this?

Can't help you there I'm afraid -- my GUI development experience is limited
to web
applications using HTML and a browser.

The Hooker