Re: OLinuXino, a serious Rasberry Pi competitor?

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From: Phil Hobbs
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:22

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On 03/13/2012 03:58 PM, Nico Coesel wrote:
> Jasen Betts<jasen@xnet.co.nz>  wrote:
>
>> On 2012-03-11, Mark Borgerson<mborgerson@comcast.net>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> So to do any programming of the RPi,  you still need a PC with Linux
>>> either native or in a virtual machine.  Of course the same is true of
>>> any other low-cost system.
>>>
>>> It does seem disingenuous to promote the idea that you could do
>>> significant hardware and  C software development with the RPi and just
>>> a keyboard, monitor and mouse.  You really need a PC and a second
>>> keyboard, monitor and mouse unless you plan to switch a lot of cables
>>> when you want to test your software.
>>
>> nah, if the PC is linux just run an X server (if this term is
>> unfamiliar,  look it up, it's probably not what you think) on
>> the RPI and leave everything plugged into it.
>>
>> or get a KVM switch. or just do non-graphical apps....
>>
>> If it's windows (I know of people who run GCC on windows) you could
>> perhaps use rdesktop or VNC instead.
>
> Better use Xming if you want to use X 'remotely'. Works like a charm
> and its pretty cheap.
>

I use Cygwin for the X server and Putty for the serial client.  Works 
great.  I even run my accounting system remotely over SSH when I'm away.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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