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My only obstacle to installing linux right now is that a lot of my custom tools for NES development were written in C#. I don't know for sure if these tools would work with Mono, or not. In addition, from what I've read and have found, FCEUXDSP 1.07 is only for windows, and it is the only version of FCEUX that has its symbolic debugging feature fully working (as far as I can tell). So I'm wondering if it works with Wine. If I could verify that those things would work on linux I think I'd switch and say goodbye to windows forever.

I've recently decided to kick progressively my Windows XP and replace it by Linux.

Sadly, I've realized that there were no accurate nes emulator with debugging options. As I don't like to use Wine, I've installed a virtual machine with Windows XP.
It works well, and the only problem I've found so far is that the nes sound is really bad (so i muted it).

I use Virtual Box.

FCEUX works fine on Wine.

What distro are you thinking of going with? I would suggest Debian Testing as it is very stable despite the name and has huge software repos and is not bloated like Ubuntu (back when I used 7.04 it was).

What do you mean by bloated? Did you mean RAM, hard disk, or something else?

I think he is talking about delivered packages.

Well, Ubuntu is the least frustrating one I tried. If you are not familiar with Linux some distributions can be quite frustrating.

If you want ready go with little to no work to make it usable linux mint is the best for that, that I know about.

Yeah, I've tried Ubuntu (I have it stored on a portable HDD ) and it is the best, although totally not foolproof. You will have to tinker with it to do what you want it to do, however if you do something stupid like delete /dev/hda or /dev/sda like I did once... you will be screwed. Irrecoverably.

The stuff that is installed by default. It can be quite an effort to remove all the crap you don't need. It would be faster to go ground up using the server distro they have which is just a barebones install, and by then it seems pointless when you could install Debian instead. I also had problems with X crashing. No matter what I did it would eventually crash(just logging in would do it). That said, it is a great distro for first timers to GNU/Linux, but after a while you may want to try something new(Been on Debian for 3-4 years now, Ubuntu for a6 months or so between that and some other ones .

Finally, I changed my mind and I've set Wine up... and it works perfectly under Ubuntu Karmic Koala . Now I'm thinking about kicking my virtual windows machine off...

I wouldn't be so quick to do that. I have been using linux as my main OS for a while now, and the need for windows always arises in one situation or another, such as some firmware upgrades are easier in windows, games, tools, and sometimes even hardware usage. (cant get the scanner to work most of the time in linux)

qeed: I have a tendency to have powerful flights of fancy every now and then and wanting to switch to linux is no exception. I have learned the hard way to leave well enough alone so I am going to not worry about it for the time being and continue to focus on my homebrew. =) Cygwin is extremely useful, though. Having cygwin on a windows box is like the best of both worlds. 8)

So, I've recently installed Ubuntu linux. I have pretty much all of my NES development stuff up and running, except a debugging emulator. FCEUXDSP 1.07 runs in Wine, but just barely (sound is horrible). Famitracker runs ok in wine, but only on the lowest possible sound quality (which is not a problem for me) I was able to compile & run Nestopia and FCEUX natively on linux, but neither of these seem to have any debugging facilities, not even the ability to inspect memory.

Any linux users care to share how they're able to debug NES programs while developing under linux?

On Slashdot, I've been told buy a copy of Microsoft® Windows® 7 and run it in VirtualBox.