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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/30/2014 01:04 PM, Vesa Solonen wrote:
> Use Ubuntu 14.04 64b or thereabouts.
> 
> Add this PPA to the above and you don't have to worry about building
> yourself:
> 
> https://code.launchpad.net/~js-reynaud/+archive/ppa-kicad
> 
> I believe it is also supported on Linux Mint in addition to strict
> Ubuntu family of distros.
> 
> -Vesa
> 
> 
> PS. What Dick said about embedded development is certainly true: It's
> much easier when your target has full Linux system and tool services and
> also embedded compilers for your integrated shared memory coprocessors
> running the RT-tasks... Take a look at the Beagle Board Black for example :)



BBB has a bad USB port.  Google "babble interrupt".

We are moving away from that board and wasted a great deal of time on it.

But linux makes this plausible, to confirm Vesa's point.