Linux compatibility

Last night I started looking at programming the RePhone modulea bit more in depth. Seeed’s documentation says Windows, and if in doubt I could use the Wif’s laptop, but I hath no doubt. I found a couple projects that are for doing what what I need, and an now poking at them. The first one (link when I remember) is for adding the RePhone to the Arduino IDE, but I’m not positive on what it’s actually doing. Rather than a board ladder like Sparkfun has for the Thing, it looks to be a complete fork of the Arduino IDE. This would be cool, but it started throwing hissies about a library when I tried uploading the barebones code. Now I’m wondering if I just need to add all the files to my existing Arduino installation?
Either way, someone else has done this, which means I’m doing it. Yeah, I’ll look at how they’re aging in the boards and poke from there.