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Re: Anyone interested in a Linux-based robot solution?

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Originally Posted by taichichuan View Post
Maybe if we had a viable copy of the VxWorks simulator with WPILib support, things would be different.
Things would have been be very different.
I am terribly disappointed that Wind River withheld vxsim from the FIRST packages.
Even better, far better, would be a virtual cRio that could run the same target binaries as the real hardware.

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What, specifically, are your concerns with Linux?
My concerns are not with Linux.
I am concerned that supporting another target OS would spread even thinner the apparently already over-burdened target software development resources being applied to FRC control systems.
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