The software to use I/O-View on Linux is less difficult than on Windows. We don’t have made a binary for Linux, so you have to build and compile I/O-View and the JTAGHOST. The description how to make this is here: http://www.ipdbg.org/?page_id=19

After compiling and building you have to start I/O-View and the JTAGHOST either over CodeBlocks or over the terminals. You have to start the JTAGHOST and after that I/O-View. To start the JTAG-HOST over the terminal you have to go to the folder Debug over IPDBG/JtagHost/bin/Debug and open the JtagHost. After that you can start IOView by going to the folder Debug over IPDBG/trunk/sw/IoView/bin/Debug and start I/O-View.

The hardware descriptions has no relation to the operation system, so you can do the same as on Windows.