On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 11:59, Jay Moore wrote: > I am fairly new to Linux, and not at all familiar with the strengths and > weaknesses of the various Linux distributions. I am starting a new > project that will require development of some embedded systems, and I am > therefore having to consider my options for a development system. I think you may be looking at this from the wrong direction. The particular OS on your development system is somewhat irrelevant. What you need to look at are the tools you need/want to use to develop the code for the embedded systems you will be working on. Start there and you may find the OS for your development system may end up being a given. Obviously you will need some kind of cross complier and possibly a linker. Debugging tools will also be needed. So if you can find some kind of simulator for your embedded system it would probably save you time instead of having to burn eproms and testing directly on the system. Source code control is another but that is available on virtually any OS today. Other than that you will eventually need to write documentation and manuals. Tools for that are available on any OS. A while back I found and installed tools from Lattice (isptools) that allowed a linux system to program Lattice devices used in an embedded system. So tools are available for doing this kind of stuff. The choice of the OS on the development system is mostly dictated by the tools you need to use. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Keep the phase, baby.
