Best IDE for SUSE Eclipse or Netbeans 6.5?

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Hello,
Im a linux newbie and learning linux and migrating from windows. Can i know ur suggestions for IDE between Eclipse vs.Netbeans 6.5 in Overall aspects?

Regards
Ananth

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The following is my opinion from my experince - highly subjective!

For a ‘newbie’, I’d suggest Netbeans 6.5 (nothing lower!). It works quite a bit like Eclipse so learning one will certainly help if you ever want to try the other.

Netbeans probably has less options than Eclipse, but for newbies like us, Netbeans has plenty! Add-on’s, plug-in’s, extensions, whatever are quite a bit easier to install on Netbeans (the only real benefit of centralization, eh!). Netbeans comes ‘pre-built’ with a number of version-control interfaces - very nice.

Overall, Netbeans is just a bit easier to install, use, and extend. Further, it’s a great entry into these kinds of IDEs. If you find that you want to go to Eclipse, having a simpler time installing Netbeans will definitely help when managing a new Eclipse install.

My 2 cents,
David

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I suggest you to install Eclipse because plugins and extension. NetBeans is also slower than Eclipse, the text formatting is stupid :).

ps.: do not install anything from openSUSE repos.
Good luck.

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I would say that it depends on what language you want to program for. Both eclipse and netbeans are fine for java.

For C++ or C, I would suggest either codeblocks or kdevelop. Both are faster than eclipse or netbeans for C/C++.

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Hey guys, I need an urgent help from you. I am not able to run Netbeans on a Linux Desktop running openSuse 11.0. The installation went fine but when I click on Netbeans I get the hour glass waiting for sometime and nothing happens. I have no clue whats going on and I have this project deadline coming up…! Somebody pleeeeeassssssse help:’(! Thanksssss.

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Start from console with command


netbeans

an paste here the output.
OR download and install manually from Welcome to NetBeans.

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Hi ram88, thanks for your time. But I later figured out that JDK was not installed…stupid of me to bother you guys here. Sorry about that. bye bye…

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I don’t know which is best or which ones runs better on SuSE, but I can relate my own experience. After doing a Java course that had used BlueJ I wanted to try a full IDE with Java. I installed NetBeans (probably pre 6.5) but found it slow and clunky and didn’t really get to grips with it. Later I tried Eclipse and was fortunate to discover a series of superb free Eclipse video tutorials by Dexter Cowley which you can follow keystroke by keystroke working through a project.

The videos are here: Eclipse And Java Video Tutorials

They are based on the earlier ‘Europa’ build 3.3 of Eclipse running on Windows.

I’d recommend getting Europa so that you can follow the tutorials exactly. Eclipse(Europa) is available from here…
Eclipse Ganymede Packages | Eclipse Packages
…then install it on Windows and work through the tutorials.

Once you’ve learned the basics of Eclipse this way, and assuming you like it (I love it!), then migrate yourself to the latest Eclipse build on SuSE. I’m a SuSE (and Windows) user. I haven’t done the Eclipse migration bit myself yet but am planning to, which is why I was looking at this thread. All I can say is that for me learning Eclipse with those tutorials was a really positive experience. Good luck!

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Correction, I should have said ‘by Mark Dexter’