Re: Ubuntu versus Fedora for cross-development host


<jimthomasembedded@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jan 30, 12:47 pm, larwe <zwsdot...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can just try it and see what I like best, but I thought some
embedded users out there might be using Ubuntu for cross-development
already, and share their recommendations.

I do and I switched from Debian to Ubuntu recently. I got used to apt-get
and didn't want to relearn. I mostly use an Eclipse-based IDE for embedded
development.

I did have to mess around to get USB drivers for my JTAG debugger to work
since the embedded tool vendor officially didn't support Ubuntu. I had to
hand-edit some udev rules and permissions to get it going but first I had to
learn what udev is.

Just out of curiosity - what would make one distribution more or less
palatable to you?

Andrew


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