I love Ubuntu as well. I stopped my Linux exploration in 
late 2002 but restarted early this year. I played
with different distribution and finally choose Ubuntu 5.04.
It is very easy to set up and I like its one CD installation
as well. Now I use it as my primary Linux Desktop (dual boot
with Windows XP SP2) and roughly spent 50% time on each platform.
I should say like both. I installed Fedora Core 4 on the
other PC (a Dell 600M notebook) because most of the GNUPIC
developers use Redhat based system. Still I have not booted
FC4 enough time to pass my judgement. My previous Redhat
experience (Redhat 5/7/8/9) were not very pleasant. Maybe it
was because I happened to use the integer version and they
normally fixed it at the dot 2 versions. ;)- 

As for MPLAB under wine, what is your main usage of it? To be
honest, I basically stopped the Wine experiment since
gputils/gpsim/sdcc are there. If I need to use C18,
normally I will boot back to Windows since the MPLAB
IDE itself is not really working under Wine. I have not 
really into dsPIC yet.

Regards,
Xiaofan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chetan Bhargava" <cbhargava@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.hardware.microcontrollers.pic
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC] Mini Howto: Microchip tools under Linux with Wine
> 
> I myself have been playing around with Ubuntu and have found that it
> is by far the best distribution around.  I like the single CD
> distribution where you install mini mun applications,
> and add more apps when you need them. I have been using MPLAB with
> wine and am very happy with it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chetan Bhargava
> 
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