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Re: Any teams use Linux?
I would really like to start using Linux to program the IFI FRC Robot Controller. I do not have any systems running windows. At home I run Gentoo, and the systems I run at school are all FreeBSD or K12LTSP (Fedora).

Reading through the Microchip website, it looks like they are using Free Software: "Portions of the Software are based on the command-line options processing source code copyrighted by Red Hat Software." So I think they should be willing to support an effort to get this working on Linux systems.

Has anyone else already done any work on setting up a Linux-based toolchain?

I have seen the IFI Linux PICLoader. Also SDCC is a compiler which supports the Microchip 18F8520 processor.

Those who are interested, please give it a try and report back. I believe that the people who are interested in FIRST Robotics are exactly the people that we need to introduce to the power of Free Software.