What operating system is the one of choice for most people here?

I'm curious about PICs and only use Gentoo.

Is there support for that?

 

XP is your best choice, not too many tools for Linux.

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But for sanity purposes, i would suggest dual booting before defacing a perfectly good linux mind.

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There you go, best of both worlds.

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gentoo? I didn't know that distro was still alive.

forget dual booting, only thing it's good for is gaming. just emerge virtualbox and load up windows in a virtual machine.

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i like justDIY's idea better.

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xp is reliable, fast and secure.

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It may be. I own a copy or 2, but I haven't used windows in years. My wife does.

I found some links on PICs in Linux. It appears to be less developed, but now being done at least.

http://http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3045

You guys know anything about that?

It sounds cheap and dirty. I may give it a go.

 

i think xp is the best

 

It's certainly the best OS Microsoft has managed to come up with, at any rate.


Torben

 

I really liked Win98. It was WAY to easy to "hack". Nothing was secure, and it worked.

I do honestly like xp, and would choose it over Pista any day (assuming linux wasn't a choice... )

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Torben

 

"OS for PICs"

I tried Vista on a 16F628 once. It took 24 days to boot, so I switched to XP.

Dan

 

I though about getting Vista (I have XP) but could not figure out why I wanted it. I have the most spartan windows setup, I don't need or want my OS to entertain or dazzle me. I just want it to run my apps.

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Pfff of couse Gentoo is still alive, it cannot be killed. Still going strong

You can do PIC programming in linux

http://hyvatti.iki.fi/~jaakko/pic/picprog.html
http://www.jmp.fi/~trossi/pic/
http://home.pacbell.net/theposts/picmicro/

and these are just the few that were thrown up by the extreamly generic "eix PIC" in my Gentoo system

Also some PIC makers provide linux software as well


Linux is great for electronics stuff. And yer if you really do need windows, use it in VirtualBox for those instances

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