On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Art Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
That is the key point. No matter what you do not like Windows (I agree Vista is kind of difficult to play with if you have a lot of old hardware/software but XP is good), many electronics engineers get the bread (or rice bowl here in Asia) on the table by using software under Windows. > 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. Ubuntu is pretty good for many things and I can basically use it at home (no work) without Windows. But unfortunately it is just not good enough to run the things at work (CAD packages, Keil, IAR, etc). As for Fedora, I feel it has more rough edges than Ubuntu. Still once you get used to it, it is almost as good at Ubuntu. Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
