Hi, Guys! I make this question because this subject is very discussed by my collegues. I'm begginer with altera tools and I would like knowing about users with more expertise with this softwares! Regards

I use all possible combinations; - Windows XP - Windows 7 - Linux (Centos 6.4) - Quartus Subscription Edition - Quartus Web Edition - Modelsim Altera Starter Edition - Modelsim-SE (direct from Mentor) I install the latest versions of tools (or one version behind latest) on my development machine (dual boot Windows + Linux), and have the other versions installed in VirtualBox Virtual machines. I only install one tool per VM so that I can be sure there is no problems with tool versions affecting each other. From a Linux or Windows XP host, the VM can acquire the USB-Blaster from the host, and all the JTAG-based tools work fine. I'd consider them all to be "fairly" stable. I can make Quartus crash, but usually its when I have combinations of SignalTap II, the programmer, and system console running simultaneously. The tools play a lot nicer together since about 12.1sp1. Cheers, Dave

Making this a sticky since I'm curious what the results will be. If I can make a suggestion, if you are able to edit your poll I would break out Vista, 7, Ubuntu, CentOS, Redhat, etc... to separate voting options.

Dave, Thanks for your thoughtfulness. BadOmen, How I can edit the poll? Please, feel free to edit if you wish. Thanks

In my view there was a pencil beside the poll that I clicked on to edit it (not sure if that is visible to others). I lumped XP and Vista together and broke out a few Linux distros.

BadOmen, The pencil is not visible for me. Thanks for help

Linux or Windows? Which one of altera's software is more stable?

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Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
12 years ago
I am wondering quartus run faster on which OS.
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
12 years ago
I just talk to my Arrow Altera rep, (I was talking to them today).

He said basically a few of his customers have done straight comparisons back in the quartus version 11.0 day's and found the Linux version being significantly faster.

I've never done a straight hardware identical comparison myself, but the general feel has been linux is faster.

Pete
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
12 years ago
ubuntu is more stable
my version is Quartus II 13.1
yesterday I open rtl viewer in windows quartus,and i double click into next level of rtl,in windows,it crashed,but in ubuntu 14.04 it work fine

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Linux or Windows? Which one of altera's software is more stable?

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