Best firmware?

I'm setting up a new Prusa 2 and have Sanguinololu electronics. I've seen a lot of mentions of spinter, repetier and marlin and I see on reprap.org that there are several other branches of the firmware. I think the Sanguinololu came preinstalled with something, but I don't know what and I'm fine replacing it with something else (I'm sure there's a newer version of whatever is installed anyway).

What is the best firmware to get things setup and going? Is there a different one recommended if your an expert? What are the advantages of the different ones? Is it normal to switch firmware types as there are improvements or do you pretty much stick with a branch once you get going?

Thanks for helping out a newbie!

marlin firmware is most adjustable, has smoother trajectory and look ahead to keep speeds up.

too keep the cool around here, this is in my humble opinion. i have not used repetier recently, but have used sprinter, tonokip, teacup, marlin, and makerbot.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2013 05:15PM by jamesdanielv.

I currently using Tonokip and I'm not to satisfied with it since I keep failing at calibrating the extruder.

How can I change the firmware to marlin?
Can you give me the steps?

Thank you

read here : [reprap.org] look under Configuring and compilation
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also teacup fits into smaller chips, and now has faster acceleration. i don't know about path planning.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/03/2013 02:43AM by jamesdanielv.