For [[SPO600]], you will need access to a Linux system. It is strongly recommended that this be a Fedora 20 system; second choice would be a Ubuntu 13.10 system (in which case you will need to adapt course examples and instructions for Ubuntu).

* On your laptop

* As a virtual machine on your laptop

You will be installing virtual machine/emulation/simulation software on this machine, so a fast/large system is desirable.

* x86_64 (avoid installing a 32-bit version of the OS or using a 32-bit-only computer)

* Minimum 2GB RAM (Recommended: as much as possible!)

* Minumum 100GB disk space

* Development tools and libraries (on Fedora: <code>yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"</code>).

* A GUI is optional and may not be required (especially if the system is being accessed remotely).