Re: Lightweight distros with GPUTILS in repository

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Jason Hsu <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to program microcontrollers in C on a 10-year-old laptop
> with only 256 MB of RAM and a 500 MHz processor.
>
> As I mentioned before, I never was able to get GPUTILS to work in
> Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux.  The dependency hell was too overwhelming.
>

Just wondering if you have solved this issue or not. I am now playing with
a Puppy Linux based Chinese Linux distro called Veket Linux. And this
paticular V2.39 has the development tools built-in. I just tried it and
I have no problems to build gputils with it. I also tried to build pk2cmd
(for PICKit 2) and it is also okay.
http://www.lucky8k.com/thread-66855-1-1.html ( a Chinese site)

So I think you can get Puppy Linux working. It is said to be quite
fast on slower machines. I know it is very fast on my not-so-slow
machine (also tried with Puppy 4.3.1 but I have not downloaded the
development tools).

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