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Poll: What is your preferred Linux distribution for embedded development?

Poll: What is your preferred Linux distribution for embedded development?

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  • I was handed an old Toshiba Pentium laptop which has Windows 7 on it but due to the old display drivers it could not be upgraded to Windows 10. So I took the bold step and did a clean install of Linux.

     

    I chose Linux Manjaro (based on Arch Linux) using the bog standard (i.e. nothing flashy) Xfce desktop environment and I have to say that I am rather pleased with the performance on this laptop. The only odd thing about Manjaro Xfce is the bootup sequence. There is about 30 seconds to a minute where you just have a blank black screen before it springs to life.

     

    Then, I have only had one gotcha so far and that came when I tried to install the NXP MCUXpresso IDE. The NXP website only offers a Debian binary and I could not figure out how to do.

     

    However, thanks to help from the forum, all I had to do was enable AUR on pamac (the installer option) and I was able to search this repository and it had the latest NXP MCUXpresso IDE installer files and I could build it. This worked like a charm.

     

    Finally, the exciting part (yet to explore), is that they offer an (embedded dev) option for ARM based processors...

     

    https://manjaro.org/download/#ARM

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  • I was handed an old Toshiba Pentium laptop which has Windows 7 on it but due to the old display drivers it could not be upgraded to Windows 10. So I took the bold step and did a clean install of Linux.

     

    I chose Linux Manjaro (based on Arch Linux) using the bog standard (i.e. nothing flashy) Xfce desktop environment and I have to say that I am rather pleased with the performance on this laptop. The only odd thing about Manjaro Xfce is the bootup sequence. There is about 30 seconds to a minute where you just have a blank black screen before it springs to life.

     

    Then, I have only had one gotcha so far and that came when I tried to install the NXP MCUXpresso IDE. The NXP website only offers a Debian binary and I could not figure out how to do.

     

    However, thanks to help from the forum, all I had to do was enable AUR on pamac (the installer option) and I was able to search this repository and it had the latest NXP MCUXpresso IDE installer files and I could build it. This worked like a charm.

     

    Finally, the exciting part (yet to explore), is that they offer an (embedded dev) option for ARM based processors...

     

    https://manjaro.org/download/#ARM

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