diff --git a/build/linux/dist.sh b/build/linux/dist.sh
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--- a/build/linux/dist.sh
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@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-#REVISION=`head -c 4 ../../todo.txt`
-REVISION=`head -1 ../../todo.txt | awk '{print $1}'`
-
-if [ $1 ]
-then
-  RELEASE=$1
-  echo Creating Arduino release $RELEASE...
-else 
-  RELEASE=$REVISION
-  echo Creating Arduino distribution for revision $REVISION...
-fi
-
-ARCH=`uname -m`
-if [ $ARCH != "i686" ]
-then
-  echo At present, the Linux distribution can only be built on i686 \(32-bit\).
-  exit
-fi
-
-./make.sh
-
-# remove any old boogers
-rm -rf arduino
-rm -rf arduino-*
-
-mkdir arduino
-cp -r ../shared/lib arduino/
-cp -r ../shared/tools arduino/
-cp ../../app/lib/antlr.jar arduino/lib/
-cp ../../app/lib/ecj.jar arduino/lib/
-cp ../../app/lib/jna.jar arduino/lib/
-cp ../../app/lib/oro.jar arduino/lib/
-cp ../../app/lib/RXTXcomm.jar arduino/lib/
-cp ../../readme.txt arduino/
-
-cp -r ../../hardware arduino/
-cp -r ../../libraries arduino/
-
-cp -r dist/tools arduino/hardware
-cp dist/lib/librxtxSerial.so arduino/lib
-
-if [ $1 ]
-then
-  # write the release version number into the output directory
-  echo $1 > arduino/lib/version.txt
-fi
-
-echo Copying examples...
-cp -r ../shared/examples arduino/
-
-echo Extracting reference...
-unzip -q -d arduino/ ../shared/reference.zip
-
-# add java (jre) files
-#tar --extract --file=jre.tgz --ungzip --directory=arduino
-
-# grab pde.jar and export from the working dir
-cp work/lib/pde.jar arduino/lib/
-cp work/lib/core.jar arduino/lib/
-
-# get platform-specific goodies from the dist dir
-install -m 755 dist/arduino arduino/arduino
-
-# make sure notes.txt is unix LFs
-# the 2> is because the app is a little chatty
-dos2unix arduino/readme.txt 2> /dev/null
-dos2unix arduino/lib/preferences.txt 2> /dev/null
-
-# remove boogers
-find arduino -name "*~" -exec rm -f {} ';'
-find arduino -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm -f {} ';'
-find arduino -name "._*" -exec rm -f {} ';'
-find arduino -name "Thumbs.db" -exec rm -f {} ';'
-
-# clean out the cvs entries
-find arduino -name "CVS" -exec rm -rf {} ';' 2> /dev/null
-find arduino -name ".cvsignore" -exec rm -rf {} ';'
-find arduino -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf {} 2> /dev/null ';'
-
-# zip it all up for release
-echo Creating tarball and finishing...
-P5=arduino-$RELEASE
-mv arduino $P5
-
-tar cfz $P5.tgz $P5
-# nah, keep the new directory around
-#rm -rf $P5
-
-echo Done.
diff --git a/build/linux/make.sh b/build/linux/make.sh
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--- a/build/linux/make.sh
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@@ -1,114 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-
-### -- SETUP WORK DIR -------------------------------------------
-
-if test -d work
-then
-  BUILD_PREPROC=false
-else
-  echo Setting up directories to build for Linux...
-  BUILD_PREPROC=true
-
-  mkdir work
-  cp -r ../shared/lib work/
-  cp -r ../../libraries work/
-  cp -r ../shared/tools work/
-
-  cp -r ../../hardware work/
-
-  cp ../../app/lib/antlr.jar work/lib/
-  cp ../../app/lib/ecj.jar work/lib/
-  cp ../../app/lib/jna.jar work/lib/
-  cp ../../app/lib/oro.jar work/lib/
-  cp ../../app/lib/RXTXcomm.jar work/lib/
-
-  echo Copying examples...
-  cp -r ../shared/examples work/
-
-  echo Extracting reference...
-  unzip -q -d work/ ../shared/reference.zip
-
-  cp -r dist/tools work/hardware/
-  cp dist/lib/librxtxSerial.so work/lib/
-
-  install -m 755 dist/arduino work/arduino
-
-  ARCH=`uname -m`
-  if [ $ARCH = "i686" ]
-  then
-    echo Extracting JRE...
-    tar --extract --file=jre.tgz --ungzip --directory=work
-  else 
-#    echo This is not my beautiful house.
-#    if [ $ARCH = "x86_64" ]
-#    then 
-#      echo You gots the 64.
-#    fi
-    echo "
-The Java bundle that is included with Processing supports only i686 by default.
-To build the code, you will need to install the Java 1.5.0_15 JDK (not a JRE,
-and not any other version), and create a symlink to the directory where it is
-installed. Create the symlink in the \"work\" directory, and named it \"java\":
-ln -s /path/to/jdk1.5.0_15 `pwd`/work/java"
-    exit
-  fi
-fi
-
-cd ../..
-
-
-### -- BUILD CORE ----------------------------------------------
-
-
-echo Building processing.core
-
-cd core
-
-#CLASSPATH="../build/linux/work/java/lib/rt.jar"
-#export CLASSPATH
-
-perl preproc.pl
-mkdir -p bin
-../build/linux/work/java/bin/java \
-    -cp ../build/linux/work/java/lib/tools.jar \
-    com.sun.tools.javac.Main \
-    -d bin -source 1.5 -target 1.5 \
-    src/processing/core/*.java src/processing/xml/*.java
-#find bin -name "*~" -exec rm -f {} ';'
-rm -f ../build/linux/work/lib/core.jar
-cd bin && zip -rq ../../build/linux/work/lib/core.jar \
-  processing/core/*.class processing/xml/*.class && cd ..
-
-# back to base processing dir
-cd ..
-
-
-### -- BUILD PDE ------------------------------------------------
-
-cd app
-
-rm -rf ../build/linux/work/classes
-mkdir ../build/linux/work/classes
-
-../build/linux/work/java/bin/java \
-    -cp ../build/linux/work/java/lib/tools.jar \
-    com.sun.tools.javac.Main \
-    -source 1.5 -target 1.5 \
-    -classpath ../build/linux/work/lib/core.jar:../build/linux/work/lib/antlr.jar:../build/linux/work/lib/ecj.jar:../build/linux/work/lib/jna.jar:../build/linux/work/lib/oro.jar:../build/linux/work/lib/RXTXcomm.jar:../build/linux/work/java/lib/tools.jar \
-    -d ../build/linux/work/classes \
-    src/processing/app/*.java \
-    src/processing/app/debug/*.java \
-    src/processing/app/linux/*.java \
-    src/processing/app/preproc/*.java \
-    src/processing/app/syntax/*.java \
-    src/processing/app/tools/*.java
-
-cd ../build/linux/work/classes
-rm -f ../lib/pde.jar
-zip -0rq ../lib/pde.jar .
-cd ../../../..
-
-
-echo
-echo Done.
diff --git a/build/linux/run.sh b/build/linux/run.sh
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--- a/build/linux/run.sh
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-#!/bin/sh
-
-cd work && ./arduino && cd ..