The Avnet / Xilinx Spartan-3A Evaluation Kit is a $49 FPGA kit from Avnet, with a XC3S400A Spartan-3A FPGA, and a number of simple peripherals:

Xilinx XC3S400A-4FTG256C Spartan-3A FPGA
Four LEDs
Four CapSense™ switches
I2C temperature sensor
Two 6-pin expansion headers
20 x 2, 0.1-inch user I/O header
32 Mb Spansion® MirrorBit® NOR GL Parallel Flash
128 Mb Spansion MirrorBit SPI FL Serial [...]

This is a short how to install Xilinx ISE Webpack 11.1 / 11.3 under Ubuntu 9.10. Start by downloading the installation files from “Xilinx Download“. The file is 2.67 GB, and Xilinx requires you to have a free account in order to download the file.

I have had problems with Pytrainer in both Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10, but have manage to get it working. I did not use Pytrainer in 9.04, because I got a little tired of looking at graphs and was following a running program where it was not necessary.
If have been injured for some month now, but [...]