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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Idea: selling Puppy Linux flash drives Post 302605977 by figaro on Friday 9th of March 2012 08:26:30 AM

03-09-2012

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We have been doing exactly that for the last 5 years. In reality, typical end users are not going to delve into something where there is only anecdotal evidence that it will make their lives much easier. Their questions are always the same: Can I use MS Excel? Can I still edit my document and distribute it as MS Word? Can I browse the internet with all my bookmarks?
Even if that flash drive you have given to them is right beside them, it will remain unused for the large majority of recipients. The distro would have to look very much like XP or Win7, and that would be a very basic requirement. To state that their aging laptop will suddenly become blazingly fast after inserting this flash drive is just not good enough of a reason.

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m16c-flash

M16C-FLASH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     M16C-FLASH(1)

NAME

       m16c-flash - Flash programmer for Renesas M16C and R8C microcontrollers

SYNOPSIS

       m16c-flash [COM_DEV] [CPU_TYPE] [FILE] [ID1:...:ID7] [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       m16c-flash is a flash programmer for the Renesas M16C and R8C microcontrollers which operates in asynchronous mode.

OPTIONS

       COM_DEV The serial device to use for flashing, e.g. /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyUSB0.

       CPU_TYPE The CPU type you want to flash to (currently M16C or R8C).

       FILE The filename of the binary you want to flash.

       ID1:...:ID7 The device ID.

       --help Show a help text and exit.

       --version Show version information and exit.

EXAMPLES

       Flash the simple.s file onto an M16C microcontroller via the first serial port (/dev/ttyS0) using 0:0:0:0:0:0:0 as the device ID:
       m16c-flash /dev/ttyS0 M16C simple.s 0:0:0:0:0:0:0

       Flash the test.mot file onto an R8C microcontroller via the USB serial device /dev/ttyUSB0, and using ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as device ID:
       m16c-flash /dev/ttyUSB0 R8C test.mot ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

BUGS

       Please report any bugs to Thomas Fischl <tfischl@gmx.de>.

LICENCE

       m16c-flash is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).

AUTHORS

       Greg Reynolds <greg@lostintheether.net>
       Jim Hawkridge <h046@eee-fs4.bham.ac.uk>
       Thomas Fischl <tfischl@gmx.de>

       This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								  August 20, 2006						     M16C-FLASH(1)