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There has been noted a severe lack of actual hacking tools for Non-Windows operating systems for hack development, often requiring people to either:

1. Dual boot, only having Windows installed to run the tools;
2. Virtualization, which is not really feasable on lower end machines;
3. Run the tools via WINE, often unreliably and/or much slower than if they were to be natively run, often crashing, or;
4. Edit level layouts and such in much slower and akward, raw assembly.

So I ask all the developers of these tools:
Why not post your source code for your utilities for people to be free to port?

This would allow those who use and prefer Linux (or other operating systems) to have an easier life with hack development, not having to rely on a clumsy development environment.

If you wish to contribute, feel free to post your codebase to this thread.