![]() One of the things I look for is to see if they have VMWare Tools installed. ![]() You also need some reasonable hardware to make them run ok - your PC should have at least 2GB RAM, and a decent processor or multi-core. The nice thing about VMs is that if you don't like it or you screw it up, you can just delete the 700MB file, and start over or get another one. You can download very simple little ubuntu VMs that have no X-Windows installed for a couple hundred meg. Using an X-windows system on your VM will definitely make your image size blow up. There are other variants, as well, but this reply is already too long winded. So, if you do go with an X-Windows system, you have two main choices: Gnome or KDE - it probably doesn't matter which you choose at this point.gnome is a little more popular I think. Or you could use Gnome on Linux and edit your projects in something like gedit (gnome's more capable version of notepad - trust me, it's much better). You could even have VMware create a shared folder between your host (windows) and guest - and do all your editing in windows, and then switch over to linux to run the makefile on the cmd line. It will probably be easier for you to deal with coming from windows, but strictly speaking, a windowing system isn't necessary for doing Linux builds of arduino projects. ![]() windowing system for it - similar to windows. Gnome means you're going to have a UI front end - i.e. ![]()
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