Scimatic Software specializes in the development of software for the scientific community.
Jamie and I had lunch last week with Greg Wilson, who has done yeoman's work getting students to use software productivity in research. Along those lines, I thought I might be able to offer up a some advice on how to make your life easier as a student in a scientific field.
Updating Debian
Now that we have the TS7200 booting Debian linux from the compact flash we can install the development tools that we need.
The first step is to update debian using the apt-get functionality:
apt-get update
To boot from the compact flash card of the TS-7200 the following steps were executed:
Partition the compact flash card
Put the Flash card in the USB reader and insert it into a linux desktop PC.
Instructions as documented in the Linux for ARM on TS-72xx User's Guide)