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Since I am expecting that you would be spending more time over your Ubuntu machine, than on Windows, therefore if you were an Outlook savvy person like me, you cannot live without   Evolution 2.28.1   on   Ubuntu 9.10 .  Ubuntu comes with a default Email client named  Evolution . Evolution cannot connect with  MS Exchange Sever 2007 . By default Evolution will never let you connect to MS Exchange Server 2007 with "Exchange Server" selected as  Server Type  during Account creation wizard at the start of Evolution. Moreover if you select "Exchange Server" it takes OWA path which is the web interface for Exchange Server. So you would be expecting authentication failure with the error message about  Exchange connector . The solution is to install "evolution-mapi" from System->Administration->Synaptic Packager Manager. If this would still not solve your problem as it did with me, than you need to install the latest stable version of evolution-mapi manu

For Development over Ubuntu in C/C++, you don't need to go through complex terminal commands. Just download Eclipse for C/C++. Remember if you run the command  apt-get install eclipse , it will install Eclipse for JAVA not for C/C++. Eclipse for C/C++ should be downloaded specifically from the www. eclipse.org  site. From the following: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ Click  Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers. The best thing about this IDE is that it come with pre-configured GNU Debugger for C/C++ and with pre-configured Makefile build. Another option would be Sun Studio, Sun Studio is not for JAVA. It is for c/C++/Fortran. I would recommend you go for Sun Studio only if you are familiar with Makefiles