Re:Make files and emacs (Score 5, Interesting)

Seconded.

I've tried a variety of IDEs, including Eclipse and Keil. My favorite is Visual Studio on Windows, and I did sort of get it integrated with the GNU tools but in the end it wasn't worth the hassle.

I'm in the final stages of large-ish embedded ARM project cross-compiled on Linux x86 using nothing but vi, make and free CodeSourcery GCC ARM tools. All of this was on Ubuntu 12.04 running under VirtualBox on Windows or OSX.