TinyOS itself is freely available and some kind of open source.
There are two major versions, 1 and 2 with similar but not
enriely congruent in features. You can develop with it on Windows
or various flavors of Linux, and maybe even the Mac. I haven't
actually used Moteworks but I believe it is based on a tinyos
v1.x platform. Xbow may have added more support for their
hardware...you'd have to look carefully for what bits you
want to work with. As far as I'm concerned a GUI is a waste
of time and will only distract from trying to get embedded
programs to work, but that's just me...
For more on TOS itself see:
http://tinyos.net/
http://docs.tinyos.net/index.php/Main_Page
MS
David Li wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to TinyOS. From what I have learned there seems to have two
> platoforms to develop. One is commercial and the other is open source.
> Commercial package such as Crossbow's Moteworks runs on Windows and
> provides nice GUI. So it might be easier for beginners but I am not sure
> what the limitations are compared to open source development (e.g. on
> Linux platform) if the application gets more complex.
>
> Can anyone comment on the difference between these two?
>
> Thanks.
>
> David
>
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