[raverbashing]

> 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

[trissylegs]

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.

[raverbashing]

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)

[pjmlp]

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