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Re: How important is Linux?
I personally want Linux (old UNIX hacker) as a development environment (GNUtools mainly) but as the system running on the robot - no.
If you had a small well documented RTOS running on the RC that'd be great - as long as we can learn and understand it all in the six weeks. That's the main barrier - new programmers with no prior experience have to be able to pick up the language/OS, understand the RC, learn how to modify it etc.
The default program goes a long way to making the current RC easy to work with but be very careful about increasing the complexity. There's no guarantee that people from last year are on this years team.
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Andrew Nicholson
2011 FRC Robot Inspector (Seattle, Portland)
Mentor FRC 1778 "Chill Out", FTC 3018, 3940 "Hawks", 4434 "Heat Misers"
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
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