MSWindows provides many good environments for the development of software. However, GNU/Linux, and Unix before it, has a long tradition of providing powerful environments for software development. Sophisticated graphical interactive development environments (IDEs) were developed on Unix but took of on the Apple Macintosh and particularly on MSWindows. However, the focus is beginning to again turn to GNU/Linux as the most flexible open source, free software, and commercial development environment.

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