[Tinyos-help] Good choice of linux for Dell latitude 600 and tinyos2

[Steve McKown]

On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:12:06 pm hamsa jega wrote:
> I am trying to start work on tinyos2 and have a dell latitude 600 laptop
> with me. I tried installing fedora core 6 and tinyos2 and had problems with
> my monitor display, so switched to fc5 and then when I tried installing the
> drivers for mib520 and mib600 I faced a trail of required dependancies that
> never seemed to end. Can anyone suggest which version of fc I should start
> with. Would appreciate any guidance.

We're using the following Dell notebooks with Ubuntu Feisty with good results.  
We work with msp430 based motes, so I can't give you feedback WRT the AVR 
tools.  Combine this with the stanford apt repository, and you have a pretty 
easy install and update environment for TinyOS development.

D600
D620
D820
X1

Cheers,
Steve