Did noone see the posted url:

http://www.execpc.com/~rdmiller/gnupic/

Rick Miller has done a good job collecting many Linux friendly PIC
programs. It does not seem to include a link to Nexus Computing, at
http://www.eskimo.com/~nexus/, where the picprg2.2 resides. But I'll tell
him. He has at least 4 coices each for assemblers, compilers, and burners,
so download 'em all, install a half dozen parallel ports in you linux box,
slap together some burner hardware, and have at it!

As to a discussion list, what's wrong with this one?

Andrius Tamulis