Moses McKnight wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>     I'm currently using a Melabs serial programmer and I have an ICD2
> clone from Hong Kong, but they belong to my boss and I need to get my
> own at some time.  What I would like to find is one programmer that will
> do both LVP and HVP so I can do in-circuit programming and debugging,
> and also high voltage programming for projects like the two I've done
> where we used all 16 I/O pins on a PIC16F819 and could not do LVP.
You can do high voltage programming in circuit. Really the only reason 
to use LVP is to make a very cheap crappy programmer.
>   The
> last thing is that I need it to work with Linux.
>     Is there such a beast?  If not, what are the best alternatives -
> especially for working in Linux?
>
>   
The debug facilities on the ICD2 are usefull but it's pricey and not the 
best programmer either. Still it's not bad and the clones are not too 
expensive. piklab supports the ICD2 on linux though i'm not sure what 
it's range of targets is like.

Other decent options for programmers include the pickit 2 and olins 
usbprog but i'm not sure what thier linux support is like.
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