On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Andre Abelian wrote: > Now I know about KDE, Gnome. > I use Fedora OS it works very well so far. > > my question is > > 1. what is slackware Just another Linux distribution and will not help you doing PIC developement better than Fedora. > 2. how can I make wine work to use MPLAB? You can but the hardware integrated will not work properly. Last time I wrote a mini-howto in Microchip forum and it got 27047 hits as of now. The last time I tried it (Ubuntu 7.10, MPLAB 7.62, certain version of C18 and C30), no major problem with the software components. Still VMware/Windows is better solution if you do not like dual boot. Personally I prefer dual boot Linux/Windows to use MPLAB under Windows. http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=112347&mpage=2 You may want to read some of the posts here if you really want to do PIC work under Linux. http://forum.microchip.com/tt.aspx?forumid=182 > 3. what else should I use to make linux cooler looking? It will slow your computer by quite a lot and IMHO is the wrong direction for Linux to go. > 4. what should I use to make linux look like mac? Buy a Mac if you like it. Make Linux to look like Mac does not help you use Linux any better. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist