> The release of Windows 98 has revitalized Linux interest by
> many development companies.  If development tools were
> available under Linux would this be the operating system of
> choice for development.  What tools would you like to see
> ported to run under Linux?

I have to admit I personally would be unlikely to buy any commercial, non
open source software, unless it was very reasonably priced. However, a lot
of people are switching to Linux not only because of it's freeness, but
because it is so much more stable and powerful than NT. I suppose with the
money they save on the annual Redmond tax, they could afford to spend some
money on commercial Linux software too.

On the other hand, I definitely would like to see more free GPL'd PIC
development tools under Linux. Things I'd like to see most of all are a
decent simulator and C compiler which understand MP compatible file
formats and syntax. Others have also said they want an IDE as well, and
there are many free IDEs available which could easily be adapted to use
the pic development tools.
I'd even be prepared to help out myself. I don't usually have much free
time to spare for development, but I could help out with testing
and debugging. I could also provide web space for the project if
needed when my new website comes online in a couple of weeks time (look
out for it- www.linuxhacker.org).
We had a discussion about this a few weeks ago, but nothing came of it,
probably because most of us are too busy with other things to start a big
project like a simulator or compiler.

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