PiKdev is an IDE for the development of PIC-based applications; it is based on the Kate editor, which is part of the standard KDE distribution. It currently supports assembly language; C language is also supported for PIC 18 devices. The programming engine of PiKdev can be used from a non graphical user interface named pkp; pkp has a simple command line interface and can be used by people who do not use KDE or use an old Linux distribution. Pikdev supports USB PICkit2 programmer from Microchip, but Pikdev can drive parallel port programmers and serial port programmers; click here for a non exhaustive list of such programmers. Unlike some other programming softwares, PiKdev uses the parallel port in user mode, therefore you do not need to execute it with root privileges. Since version 1.1.0, Pikdev needs pk2cmd version 1.20.0 (or higher) from Microchip; source code, executable binary for the kernel 2.4.x.y and executable binary for the kernel 2.6.x.y. For more information about Pikdev, click here.