Hi!

I have VU+ Ultimo and I'm interested to create OpenVIX development environment to my laptop, that I could check how it is made/works and hopefully some day contribute some code/bug fixes. But I'm not sure where to start. Is there some tutorial or helps how to do that, or maybe ready virtual machine image?

This is initial plan, please correct me if it looks stupid or something.. Here are some questions about the process. As a same time when I create my environment I could document that process to tutorial etc. for new developers..

1. I think I'll install VirtualBox and and Linux into it
* How much memory is needed to the virtual machine?
* Which Linux distro is best? Or Does it matter what it is?

2. Install and setup software needed to build the OpenVIX
* What do I need? Python?
* What is easiest way to install them? apt-get? (depends on distro)
* Do I need to configure those that they create proper build?

3. Get the source
* Are the source found from https://www.assembla.com/spaces/openvix ?
* Is the source same for all VU+ machines?

4. Do the build
* How it happens?

5. Get some IDE
* What IDE you recommend? Is NetBeans ok?

It would be great if you could answer to these questions and help me to build the environment. Some background information about me; I know linux basis; I'm software developer, but I haven't coded using python.

Thanks!