I opened this topic to try and see how many Linux user are out there that would like to have a Linux application to tune their car? I myself have been using Linux for years and keep a windows partition, VirtualBox & Wine installation just for my tuning apps. and I have had just about enough of this cr..p.

I'm working on a lot of ideas and one of these is a free native Linux app. so if you are interested and want to know more here I am.

Attached is the first beta release of the app.

Yes I'm developing it.

When I first started to use Linux it was rough because of config. issues with various devices, etc.. Also formated several times going back and forth between the two os's but in the end I got used to it and as the years went on things were always easier with better hardware compatibility and I found various open apps. that could replace the commercial apps. I was used to using. Today the only reason I keep windows installed is to use my tuning apps.

just started learning linux with some red hat software. ill give it a try

Keeping a VM installed is always a necessity to try various win apps., etc.. If you wanna flash an ME7 you still need to use NefMoto Unless Tony's up to writing a plugin.

For logging like you said there are open specs. and one could talk with open minded company's to see about getting their specs. when needed.


If there are people seriously interested in contributing I would consider publishing the code with some limitations on the licensing (for example Creative Commons ShareAlike)... But if I'm going to end up doing only the work then might as well keep it for me!

I've had some experience with starting open source projects where there have been 1000's of downloads and not anybody giving any useful feedback or contributions, only someone deriving their own products for profit.

Attached is a screen shot for those that don't have Linux to see what's been done so far.

Why not just extend ROMRaider? http://www.romraider.com

It's open source and written in Java.

You could always write your plugin in native code and use JNI to allow Java to call into your plugin code. This is the same way that everyone runs C/C++ apps on Android which is Java based.

interesting link! thanks

P.S. Attached is an updated copy of the linux app. and as a treat I cross compiled a win32 version and bundled it in the same archive so now window'z users can check it out too.

I've got a little code cleaning up & commenting to do and then I can decide what type of license to use for releasing the code before I start work on the next major updates which will be some extra feature for the table editor with mainly have to do with difference viewing between BIN's, 2D/3D charting and plugin support.

If there is anybody that would like to contribute once the source is available please contact me, besides coding there are other usefull things that can be done like icons for the menubar, toolbar, etc.., documentation and many other things...

P.S.S. If there is anybody that uses MAC OSX out there it would be nice to also see about getting a version out for it. I don't expect there to be any difficulties because code is very cross compile friendly.