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LINUX LESSONS

by George Martin

Start ı Booting Up ı Getting the Best Performance ı Final Deduction ı Sources and PDF

FINAL DEDUCTION

My observations and recommendations? Donıt install Linux on a mission-critical system. Plan to try different versions. Perhaps you and your friends could each get a different type and compare notes. Read the directions through a couple of times before you start. Donıt think of Linux in the same way as Windows. Itıs a stable safe system, but not all encompassing yet. And, plan to run Linux in the near future.

For the past 10 years, we (embedded engineers) have lived in the wake of the PC and Windows (WINTEL). I feel that the PC is taking a market-driven path that we will no longer be willing or able to follow. Linux today has everything we need and will only keep getting better. Itıs virtually free and open-sourced. And, Linux is text-based so the compilers and editors really scream.

Iıve left out all the details of the installation. I was installing last yearıs, and it doesnıt seem to be of much value because youıre going to be using at least a 2000 vintage. Also, there have been several Linux articles in Circuit Cellar over the past couple of years, so check them out if youıre truly interested.

Iıll get off my soapbox. Iım looking at a new schematic and artwork package. I think Iıll try to get a Linux version.

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