A work around for Linux users

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Originally Posted by Slix

It'd be nice to be able to do all FRC programming tasks in Linux. Unfortunately, the LabVIEW-based Driver's Station, cRio Imaging Tool, and others make that difficult.

I know someone was working on a Driver's Station without these restrictions. What about the others? Could the imaging tool's functionality be reimplemented in some cross-platform way?

For just the build environment you could create a build environment in Windows you RDP to and drop your source on through a network share.

All you need is a real license of Windows XP Professional, if you use XP Home you can use VNC.

You could also put the whole thing in a VMWare, Xen or KVM virtual machine and then don't even need more harware (haven't tried this in a while but it should work).

I know my team does most of it's development in Eclipse with Java on Linux and Mac OSX. They tried to port the driver's station with some success. However, even if you create that code I'm not convinced it's entirely legal for competition use without specific approval.