Ubuntu Starting Questions

[Chris Mohler]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle
<mailinglists at mailnewsrss.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> It has been a long while since I used Linux for everyday tasks. I have
> a new netbook running 9.04 UNR.
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> 1. How do I install Development tools? GCC, C++, make, autoconf, etc,
> etc.? I know apt-get, but is there a package that fetches/installs
> everything?

The 'build-essential' package is a good start.

> 3. a text editor that has tabs? I have used SciTe before but that is
> not tabbed. Should be fast and have syntax highlighting for web, java,
> C++, SQL, etc.

SciTe has tabs these days.  There are tons of alternatives as well.

HTH,
Chris