Ask HN: Your development setup for Ubuntu?

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Hi, I'm bored, so to change things, I installed Ubuntu 9 and decided to do some light web development on it.

I made some research on the web but found nothing interesting.

So Ubuntu users, what software do you use for your development and productivity?

So far, I installed Chrome, Skype, PHP, Abyss, MySql and Aptana.

I've used Ubuntu for about 3 years, and use Firefox/Firebug, Emacs plus the emacs-goodies package. While emacs is a bit long to learn, I find that it's incredibly efficient. I also use Apache, nginx, Python/Django, PHP, and MySql to do local testing.

Every now and then I try some different envrironments, and last week was one of those times. So far, I've liked gedit a lot and may switch to it eventually -- it has some nice plugins: colors/syntax highlighting, integrated shell, autocomplete, etc. It's fast and a bit easier to use at first than emacs.

I liked NetBeans, but I couldn't get any of the plugins to work, so I ditched it. I'm retrying Eclipse since the last time I tried it, it started to be painfully slow. I also will try PyCharm as soon as I can get it to build.

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