gnupic: Re: [gnupic] best OS for gnupic
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] best OS for gnupic
From:
Robert Pearce ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 2006 19:39:56 +0100
Message-Id: <20060512082732.31b90c0a.rob@bdt-home.demon.co.uk>
On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:03:13 -0400
Jon Fox ####@####.#### wrote:
>
> As a gentoo user and lover I must admit that it is a difficult to use and
> administer distribution for new GNU/Linux users. I really would
> encourage you to start with Debian or Ubuntu distributions if you want a
> working gputils/gpsim/sdcc/gcc development suite for Microchip PICs and
> haven't administered Linux systems before.
If your aim is to use GNUPIC tools then I'm struggling to see why you'd want to compile a custom kernel.And if all you're doing is building the "stock" Gentoo kernel then I've always found it to be a smooth process, even on the machine I converted to GCC3.4.5
One thing I would mark against Gentoo for PIC development - the ebuild for gputils 0.13.3 is _STILL_ marked unstable, despite this having been the official current release for quite some time. The gpsim ebuild is probably even more out of date, but since I've been using the CVS/SVN version since before I discovered Gentoo that's not so visible to me.
If you're a sufficient newbie that you need the gnupic stuff to be packaged for your distro, then DON'T use Gentoo. Ubuntu is probably more to your tastes.
If you're experienced enough to be happy rebuilding kernels, you'll probably want to use the latest versions of gnupic tools, so it really matters not which distro you're on.
There is one particular tool, Manuel Bouyer's ptyUsart gpsim module, that I'd like to use, but it only works on BSD :(
