[Planetlab-users] a few questions from a first timer

[Robert P Ricci]

Thus spake Ricardo Lopes Pereira on Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:49:32AM +0000:
> -In order to develop my applications, should I use devbox (if it's still
> current) or my-plc? What is the difference? I just want a chroot with
> planet-lab's gcc tool-chain and libraries. My-plc appears to be overkill.

my-plc is overkill, you just want a dev box. An alternative to building
your own devbox is to use the PLAB-DEVBOX disk image available in
Emulab: just apply for an Emulab account, and then you can trivially get
a clean devbox whenever you want one (or more than one). There are some
more details here:
http://www.emulab.net/kb-show.php3?xref_tag=plab-devbox

Note, though, that since most PlanetLab nodes are still FC2, our disk
image is too. So this will not solve your version problems yet. But, as
more PlanetLab nodes start running FC4, we'll update our image.

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