For reasons of Unix legacy and open source, the more flexable and powerful of the Linux tools are the GNU tools for the command line. So most anything useful on this page will have at least a command line mode or version. Granted IDE's are nice but I can run a encripted Linux shell anywhere I can get IE 4 or Netscape 4.06 or higher.

My first order of business is making sure I can use all the things I learned in the world of DOS could be applied to Linux. If you are interested in doing the same you might want to check out Alan Cox's short paper on this issue.

My favorite text editor is vi, and I've found that I can do syntax highlighting with vi. Vim (VIsual editor Improved) enables automatic file syntax highlighting for an obscene amount of languages, all you have to do is a ":syntax on" Cool right?

gdb

make

more to come later.