On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 13:57 -0400, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> You can always reinstall Windows and it will get faster. Linux is also
> not small. You can not reduce to a bare minimum and expect the
> PIC development to be smooth if you want to run gpsim and Piklab.
> In fact "Bare Minimum" Linux like those bootable CD based
> distribution will be almost useless for PIC and Electronic related
> development under Linux.

Very true, in fact when I install Linux I install EVERYTHING (which is
harder then it used to be since Fedora decided a couple versions ago to
remove the "everything" option when installing...).

My solution to the "windows problem" is threefold:

1. a dual core machine running linux
2. 1.5GB of memory
3. free version of vmware running a win2k virtual machine

This solution works VERY well. Most of my work is done under Linux.
Whatever needs windows is run on the win2k virtual machine. Having the
dual core machine means both the host Linux system and the virtual win2k
system almost always have enough CPU to be happy. The large amount of
memory is necessary since Fedora 5 isn't happy with less then 1GB of
memory (and runs better with 1.5GB).

TTYL

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