An important issue to address (perhaps the most important, if you're new to Linux) is system administration. When you need help, are you going to call your company's IT department? Is your company willing to send you to training? Are you going to self-educate? This may be your key point, if you're new to Linux.
This wasn't an issue here since I've been using Unix for many years -- so I do the administration. Maybe someone else on the list can speak to first-Linux-box-in-a-Windows-shop issues. Unix is different -- no registry, more text-based config files, etc. There are plenty of admin guides at the local bookstore; also, for what it's worth, I think Unix is easier to administer & troubleshoot than Windows, simply because you have more visiblity. strace alone is a lifesaver ... If all you want to do is cross-development, there shouldn't be too much trouble. But you -- or someone -- should know how to add a user, partition and mount disks, set up NFS exports, install sshd/telnetd, etc. Sort of "admin lite". -----Original Message----- From: brian.auld at adic.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:10 PM To: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Need IDE for embedded Linux project Hello all, I've just joined the mailing list. I apologize as I write this from a windows machine. I just spent some frustrating minutes trying to tweek Microsoft Outlook to go plain text 72 chars and I hope it worked. This is the unfortunate side effect of the company I work for providing a windows based dev environment for their engineers (nauseous). Also I hope I'm not too off-topic, and if I am, I humbly ask for the name of a different mailing list. My group is just kicking off their first embedded linux project. The bean counters finally bit the bullet and decided to move from VxWorks to Linux on this project. Our hardware will be a custom board running the PPC440GP. I am truly physched!!! As a first step I am trying to determine what IDE makes sense given our Department's infrastructure ... which is all windows (barf). I am aware of the following options: Option 1: All Native Linux. Option 2: Native windows cross development environment. Option 3: Vmware (linux guest on windows) with a Linux based IDE. Option 4: Linux development server <--> PC-X server software (hummingbird) on windows development hosts. Starting from a clean slate, option (1) would be my choice, but I don't think it's practical given our installed base of Win2K workstations. Regarding option (2), I get the impression that there are packages available that do this, but I haven't got any real concrete hits when searching on the web. Regarding option (3), I just got the Vmware 30-day demo and am running RH7.2 as a Virtual Machine on my Win2K pukebox to evaluate. Regarding option (4), it's another idea I had but haven't done much investigation other than having thought about the possibility. So my basic questions are as follows: Question 1: Can anyone first confirm that option (2) is doable, and second recommend or point me to some of these options. Question 2: If I go with (1) or (3), based on investigation so far, I would expect to use Denx's IDE that I've seen mentioned on this list's archives before. Some feedback about this choice or others as a Linux based IDE would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian Auld Firmware Engineer Brian Auld Embedded Software Engineer ADIC 10 Brown Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 241-4845 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
