Thank you all for the responses.
It looks like going for Linux (either virtual or real) is the best option
for development. Hardware doesn't matter as none of the platform provides
SDR capability anyway.
Another question about tools/source install for TinyOS 2.1: Is there any
one stop shop that ALL necessary packages can be downloaded and installed
at once? Or do I have to go through the 5 or 6 steps to do all these
manually? From what I have read, the one stop option (Linux Live CD)
doesn't currently work. So the next option is a two-step approach using
apt-get. But the "sudo apt-get install tinyos" failed in my case because it
complained about lots of missing dependencies. So my conclusion is you have
to do this manually. Did I miss something?
Thanks.
David
On Feb 24, 2009 8:30am, Janos Sallai <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. Which software platform is better for development in terms of ease
> of use? I have seen Windows and Linux. For Linux is it Ubuntu or
> Fedora?
I suggest that you use a virtual machine image that runs under VMWare
Player. Then it does not matter what host operating system you use.
This is the easiest way to get started with TinyOS.
> 2. Which hardware platform is better to use, Mica based or Telos
> based? Consider the factor that I might have to customize the radio
> waveform (software defined radio), and other high level power control
> stuff in the future.
Both micaz and telos use the CC2420 802.15.4 compliant transceiver
(DSSS/O-QPSK), so you will not be able to experiment with the
waveform.
Janos
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