Crikey, that's doing it the hard way Richard! I've got various flavours of Unix kicking around too, right back to SCO Xenix.
Have a look at Debian Linux and in particular the Ubuntu packaging of that variant. About the only thing I haven't yet got a solution to satisfy my needs on that OS variant is a CAD package - probably because I'm being pedantic about features I want. Printed circuit board & schematic design, firmware burning, a decent IDE, cross compilers, word processor (for documentation!!) plus lots more - most free. After years with M$ base and commercial products I miss only one or two. I know it's not easy to switch (keeping bread on the table is rather important) but it's worth it. I'm even finding I'm using Ubuntu Linux now to do such basic things as burning update ISO's to CD's & DVD's for customer sites that run M$ simply because the job is quicker and more reliable with Brasero. Art C Richard Erlacher wrote: > BTW, Dave, I have several bought and paid for versions of UNIX right down in > the basement. I don't use 'em because there's so little of use that runs > under UNIX. I once had these set up for purposes of evaluating different > flavors of UNIX for a specific purpose. For a number of reasons, we > abandoned it and used the RedHat LINUX of the time (1995) instead. That's > how I learned what little I know about the coding and documentation for > LINUX. > > I've been fiddling with FEDORA from time to time for over a year and have > yet to get anything useful, aside from what's on the distribution CD, to run > under it. > > regards, > > Richard Erlacher > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:16 PM > Subject: Re: [Sdcc-user] documentation & open source generally > > >> On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Richard Erlacher wrote: >>> Further there's so much discussion of various ways and things-to- >>> install to >>> make Windows look like *nix. Is that necessary, and, if so, why? >> ... >>> Why doesn't this stuff work with normal DOS commands? >> You do realize that SDCC is UNIX software, right? If you want to >> run it on a platform other than that which it is intended to support, >> you might have to jump through a hoop or two. If that's difficult, >> find a UNIX box. If THAT is difficult, let me know and I'll give you >> an account on one of mine. >> >> -Dave >> >> -- >> Dave McGuire >> Port Charlotte, FL >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Sdcc-user mailing list >> Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Sdcc-user mailing list > Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
