Ubuntu developer edition!?

[imagecko]

Sorry for my bad english. English is not my native language..

I have starting to thinking about making a special brand of linux for developers. This is not meant to be any large or well-known linux or anything... Just a personal project...

I'm a programmer/developer who has migrated from Windows to Linux.
I'm thinking about an Ubuntu-environment designed for developers, with some good applications installed that developers use a lot.

If you have some suggestions about what window environment (gnome, kde, e17, etc) to use or what applications and servers to have installed as default, please write it down here in this thread...

I will write more here when I have brainstormed a little and when I have started doing something on this project..

[tdrusk]

Sorry for my bad english. English is not my native language..

I have starting to thinking about making a special brand of linux for developers. This is not meant to be any large or well-known linux or anything... Just a personal project...

I'm a programmer/developer who has migrated from Windows to Linux.
I'm thinking about an Ubuntu-environment designed for developers, with some good applications installed that developers use a lot.

If you have some suggestions about what window environment (gnome, kde, e17, etc) to use or what applications and servers to have installed as default, please write it down here in this thread...

I will write more here when I have brainstormed a little and when I have started doing something on this project..
I think it would be better if you just made a thread that shows how to get the right tools. We don't need another Ubuntu.

[imagecko]

I think it would be better if you just made a thread that shows how to get the right tools. We don't need another Ubuntu.

As I wrote, it will be just a small project for myself. If anyone else wants to join the project or use the "dist" its ok for me.

I wrote the post here to get some suggestions and ideas from other people.

[pelle.k]

Yeah, give us a meta package (or many) installing existing tools and documentation, and add your own stuff to that so that people can just add a repo adress and whatever and be done with it.
Personally, i would like to see more documentation (with examples) easy accessible for whatever package i install, like when i install php i would like the php chm manual (the one with comments) from say a documentation menu. Likewise for wxpython i would like the API documenatation in chm form in some menu to quickly look up some class i'm working with.
I'd say consistency would be the key word here. Every package such as wxwidgets or pygtk should come with some documenatation like this, preferably in three or more formats, like .txt, .pfd and .chm.

[imagecko]

I think it would be better if you just made a thread that shows how to get the right tools. We don't need another Ubuntu.

And when I'm thinking about it... It doesn't have to be based on Ubuntu.
I will check around what linux dist is the best for web- and software-developers.

[MONODA]

I would recommend a arch linux, slackware or gentoo base. There is also LFS if you are interested in looking into that project. link: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

[pelle.k]

I will check around what linux dist is the best for web- and software-developers.
I don't think there is such a thing.
Furthermore, i hope you know your way around linux in general because you can't just slap together a linux distro just like that. I say that because you sound kind of vague about this. But what do i know ;)

[MaxIBoy]

Remaster an existing distro, just pre-bundle it with other applications. I would recommend at least one IDE for every major language (IDLE for Python, something for C/C++, MonoDevelop for C#, and so on.)

[babylon2233]

The original Ubuntu is a great development environment but Ubuntu developer can't put all tools install by default because not all users is a developer and they don't know what exactly each developers want. But believe me you can get every tools you need to program in Linux. Just check Add/Remove, you will see a lot of tools like IDE, text editor and other development tools for many programming language.