Hiya, I'm Alex.

I live in Dallas, Texas, in the United States of America, where even the most brilliantly-devised political system cannot save the mass of idiotic and indifferent people of the land from traitorous wealthy tyrants.

I'm fairly new to Linux, have dabbled in it for a while now, but haven't yet learned how to program in it.

(I refuse to learn how to program in C++ without learning it with a modern Linux distro.)

I want to learn the "standard" way to develop C++ programs in Linux with glibc, gcc and all that, in a clean, powerful IDE.

If anyone has an answer to that, hey, I'd be grateful.

Also, if one can recommend a recent book that will cover a lot of ground teaching C++ to someone in Linux, that would be excellent.

Thank you, and see ya for now. I have a different problem, that I need to address.

Welcome to Linux. I hate to be the one to tell you, but there is no "standard way" to develop in C++ on Linux. Some people like straight vi + gcc, some emacs and gcc, some full-blown IDE's. If you wind up in KDE I'd recommend KDevelop, otherwise I'd recommend Anjuta for IDE's. As far as books - and I do mean this seriously - the "for dummies" book is what I learned on, it's not bad.