On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 10:08 -0400, Bill Kuncicky wrote:
> I've managed to scrounge an old desktop computer for my PIC work, and can
> now let my wife use the laptop.  This will work a lot better, except that
> the old desktop that I was given only has Windows 95 on it, and it is pretty
> messed up.  So I want to install Linux and learn to do all my PIC work with
> it.  I've ordered some installation CD's with Fedora Core 4 and that should
> be here in a couple of days.

Hello Bill. I do have a few concerns. You mention the machine only has
Win95 on it? How fast a machine is it?

Linux is pretty resource hungry. While CPU is important, memory is MORE
important. Personally, to run FC4 I would recommend a minimum of a
Pentium4/AMD Athlon XP and at least 512MB of memory.

The machine I'm using now is a 2.4GHz Celeron and while fast enough I
really wish it had more speed. Memory is king though. I had 512MB and it
crawled sometimes. I now put a minimum of 1GB of memory in every Linux
machine I use. The machine I'm writing this on has 1.5GB of memory.

If you are only planning to run in text mode then please ignore
everything I've said! :)

> The question is what do I need to install under Linux for the PIC support?
> I have a Wisp628 programmer, and know (or am pretty sure) that xwisp2 is
> supported under Linux, so guess I will need to install xwisp2.  How about
> the assembler and simulator?  I am slowly going through  the WinPicProg
> tutorials, which use the 16F628.  All the code is absolute.  So guess I do
> not need a linker.

Unfortunately I can't help much on the "doing PIC under Linux stuff"
since I still keep a Win2K machine around for that.

If I didn't have that machine I would be using Linux running VMWARE to
get an emulated version of windows running. 

While development under Linux certainly is possible, support for the
ICD2 is very sparse, and I've been spoiled by how much easier developing
with the ICD2 is! :)

TTYL 

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