Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote: Well, it's no longer a concern for me. I don't give a damn about Xilinx any more. I've just got the CD with Altera's Quartus for Linux and it's all normal tarballs, which I have unpacked just fine manually without using any installer. Then after giving it a bootleg license file I've got the command line tools working. So, reiterating for those who haven't caught the gist - I now have working command line tools under Linux (no Winblows, no GUI, no X display needed) for compiling Altera FPGAs. I start with Verilog sources and get an SOF (SRAM object file) for the FPGA, all command line controlled by a Makefile, just like compiling C code with cc under UNIX. Isn't this something to celebrate? MS