Hacker News Reader

> if you need a "Linux-compliant" environment

I'd willing to bet some pocket money that most people claiming that don't know what they're talking about

Unless you need, I dunno, DBUS? Or are specifically building stuff for Ubuntu/Red hat etc

I had a lot of trouble getting any FPGA software running on Mac. But Linux it just runs/builds out of the box.

Although if you have windows it also tends to run there too.

Ah true, some SW is built for specific Linux distros (on one side, it's hard to build an "universal binary" but on the other side, I've seen very ugly software installs)

Usually are the folks that equate Linux with UNIX, and complain about other UNIXes when they don't offer Linux specific syscalls.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com