AVR-Chat

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:03:19AM -0500, David D. Rea wrote:

> Easy equation to balance:
> 
> Apple Cinema Display + Dual-processor Power Mac G5 + Gentoo Linux =
> Happy Dave + Empty Wallet
> :)

My setup is a PowerMac dual G5 + 23" Cinema display (1920x1200) + a
second 20" 1600x1200 LCD for dual head.  Combine that with a virtual
desktop switcher like Workspace Manager:

     http://wsmanager.sourceforge.net/

And load up X11 + emacs - geez, it doesn't get much better.

And with the native MacOS X which gives the best of both worlds -
powerful Unix (Berkeley FreeBSD based - the way Unix was meant to be)
with the best GUI in the business - I can't fathom why you'd want to
downgrade that to ordinary run of the mill Linux :-)

And yes, my wallet is empty :))

BTW, even though AVR Studio doesn't support MacOS X, the open source
tools for the AVR run very very well on Mac OS X.  All tools basically
compile right out of the box, just like on any other Unix system -
gcc, binutils, avr-libc, avrdude, avarice (avarice needs a little
help, but it is minor).

Oh - and Eagle for schematic capture and layout supports native MacOS
X.  It works great also.

I did spring for a copy of Virtual PC, though, so that I can run AVR
Studio when I need to flash my STK500 or run the occasional Windows
program.  But I don't use it for day to day work - I prefer the open
source tools over AVR Studio.

It's a very nice system to use for development!  You gain a lot and
give up nothing.

-Brian
-- 
Brian Dean
BDMICRO - ATmega128 Based MAVRIC Controllers
http://www.bdmicro.com/