I use Ubuntu on my dual P3 machine. I have Eagle, MPLAB and ARM development toolchain on the machine. I like it for the following reasons: 1. Single CD distribution (in contrast to three CDs of FC3) 2. Minimum apps installed 3. Ease of use and updates 4. Debian stability At work I play with lots of *nix distributions including Fedora, RedHat EL, slackware, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD etc. So to test a hardware platform I wold load a single CD of Ubuntu and have all the tools. I ordered about 50 CDs of Ubuntu one and a half months ago and today I received them. I intended to distribute among friends and colleagues. After looking at your MPLAB on Ubuntu thread, i decided to offer them to piclist. Regards, Chetan Bhargava On 9/11/05, Chen Xiao Fan wrote: > 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 -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist