First of all, I want to tell you that I'm new to the LQ forum so if my posting bothers anyone please don't get too mad at me
I'm not new to Linux, nor to programming but I'm new to programming in Linux hence some "newbie" questions:

- I like the Linux and Open Source concept very much and I hate microsoft stuff, nothing new here. I'd like to SERRIOUSLY lern to program in linux and get a related job but "Can an individual earn a living being an open source programer?" or is it only more like a hobby?

- What IDE-s are most commonly used? (I've heared about Anjuta, Kdevelop & Eclipse). What do you use, just curious?

- When programming an X application (with windows, menus etc.) where do I get started? I've heared about QT, GTK etc...

- What about OpenGL programming? I've found some tutorials but most are for Windows. Is mesa of any help?

Thank you in advance and we'll keep in touch!
Hope someone finds some time to post back...

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

I'm not earning my money as a programmer (strictly speaking)
despite the title :} of senior systems programmer.


I don't use IDEs, vim and emacs all the way :}

Yep, and of course a million others less popular ones.
fltk, motif, X primitives...

Qt has OpenGL support built in.


Cheers,
Tink

Thanks for the reply Tinkster, I hope other people would like to share their point of view too...

See ya

earning with open source programming is if your community is funded i suppose otherwise its your volunteering. there maybe exceptions to the rule but. IMO you most probably will need to juggle through more than one jobs per day to earn your bread+butter. I don't do gtk programming nowadays, just some sockets and .. and so i also use vim or sometimes gedit. with vim you will need to learn vim from the basic to the advanced to yield nice productivity. first you will need to decide on the programming language and then decide what to use. vim gives nice support for c, c++ programming, for java there's netbeans which is superb, QT is nice for graphical frontends (i liked it a lot).