[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Distro Recomendation

[Johnny Cybermyth]

Byran, you are right in that I was very unclear as to the target and 
purpose of the distro.

The embedded target is a PC104 from Diamond 
Systems(http://www.diamondsystems.com).  I don't know exactly what he 
has ordered or what he will receive.  Diamond has several options for 
their Linux solutions which provide a complete development on the PC104 
target itself and they also seem to have solutions that utilize your 
existing Linux desktop(they mention Red Hat as a possibility) to 
communicate new code to the target.

The lead engineer has come to me for a recommendation on a distro that 
he can play with on a PC(or laptop, not sure) to get a little "hands-on" 
with Linux.  I believe that he has heard that Linux usually comes with 
free compilers.  He has been in the game for a while and has programmed 
many projects in the DOS environment, but he prefers MS Visual Basic for 
all of our PC-based coding projects.  I assume this is why he is asking 
about a graphical programming environment.  It's does sound a little 
funny since all of his firmware code for our custom embedded targets is 
written in PLM51(!!!) using DOS Edit for a code editor!  I'm currently 
migrating us over to C.

I hope that this clears up the confusion.  Thanks again guys!


Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> 
>>Having great hardware detection and KNOWING what to do
>>with that information are two different things.  I do
>>think hwinfo is ten times better than kudzu, though others
>>have already pointed out some of its failings... SUSE can
>>be a source of frustration as well as a great source of 
>>delight.
> 
> 
> A distro installer's hardware detection has nothing to do
> with embedded.  Especially if the target platform is not
> running a distro, and you're only considering a distro for
> the host.  Especially in that case, this discussion is moot.
> 
> More info on what the embedded target is?
> 
>