Ubuntu

[Eugene Krel]

you can give crossover a try, but when I tried to use it for MS office in general it didn't go too well. Perhaps they have improved since then.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Which version of Crossover you used?
The latest version is 9 and from the research I've done the past few days, it seems to work fine.

Too bad they don't have a trial version to testing.

EDIT: They do have a trial Download CrossOver Linux Standard Trial - CodeWeavers

 

[quantstart]

Has anyone had any trouble upgrading from 8.10 to 9.10 via apt-get dist-upgrade? I'm hesitant as I have heard horror stories before (although this was Feisty).

 

[const451]

CrossOver Linux 9: Run Windows apps without Windows

 

[Marko]

Have anyone used Ubuntu on their laptop? How is it for quant work?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I was forced to use Ubuntu on my Thinkpad for 2 weeks due to a failing on my main hard drive and I liked it a lot. The development tools were readily at my hands and as a result I was more productive then. I can ssh to the server directly from the terminal instead of using putty in windows. Firezilla in Unbutu is lightning fast.
I can even get VPN to work.
Sadly, the fonts aren't good enough and I'm a power email user which means I can't live without my trusty Outlook client.

 

[Emanem]

Have anyone used Ubuntu on their laptop? How is it for quant work?

Hi, I've used Ubuntu for the last 4 years and actually it's really good for me.
Keep in mind I'm not a quant (more a comp. scientist :P - hehehe broad term).
Still, with help of my quant friend I implemented a montecarlo multiasset exotic GPU pricer with GLSlang (no CUDA neither OpenCL, but old fashioned OpenCL); this was 2.5 years ago.
I kinda guess things have improved as well, from all points of view, so my guess is to give it a try.

Cheers,

 

[Sporkman]

I use Ubuntu exclusively both at home on my Acer laptop + home servers as well as on my desktop at work.

It's a fine OS, and in fact now's a good time to try it out, as they've just release their latest long term support ("LTS") version 10.04.

 

[foobar]

If you are using a mac just stick with OS X as it's unix based and xcode is a really good all around IDE.

Agreed, OSX's probably the nicer *nix in the market nowadays.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Thanks for the heads up, got my T60 upgraded to Lucid.

 

[ExSan]

Ubuntu Desktop and Server editions will be available for download on April 28.

Ubuntu Server 11.04

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Nice. Looking forward to upgrading the Quantnet servers to the latest.

 

[cgorac]

Agreed, OSX's probably the nicer *nix in the market nowadays.

Now when this year old thread is bumped: can't resist to comment that OSX, albeit based on good old Unix-type kernel (FreeBSD) diverged quite a lot from a Unix system (just look at those silly file system hierarchy decision), so I'd say it feels rather alien to experienced Unix users - personally, I feel much more comfortable on Windows machine with Cygwin installed, than on Mac machine (also, to get on-topic: for me, almost ditto for those "modern" Linux distributions, like Ubuntu).

 

[Lyosha]

I used to run gentoo. Now I run ubuntu (along with windows 7). It just works. I've come to appreciate that... because I really cannot say that about mac os x. My experiences with it have been largely negative, so much so that I advise anyone and everyone to not buy their computers (ipods are still cool though...).

 

[ExSan]

Now when this year old thread is bumped: ....

it doesn't need to be old to be a classic