Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

[evan foss <evanfoss@xxxxxxxxx>]

You know the mechanical people have a livecd or I think it is dvd now.
Perhaps we should have an electronics live disk of some kind?

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Bob Paddock<bob.paddock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/2114210/Cheap-Cross-Platform-Electronic-Circuit-Simulation-Software?from=rss
>
> "Cheap, Cross-Platform Electronic Circuit Simulation Software?
>
> dv82 writes "I teach circuits and electronics at the undergraduate
> level, and have been using the free student demo version of OrCad for
> schematic capture and simulation because (a) it comes with the
> textbook and (b) it's powerful enough for the job. Unfortunately OrCad
> runs only under Windows, and students increasingly are switching to
> Mac (and some Linux netbooks). Wine and its variants will not run
> OrCad, and I don't wish to require students to purchase Windows and
> run with a VM. The only production-quality cross-platform CAD tool I
> have found so far is McCad, but its demo version is so limited in
> total allowed nets that it can't even run a basic opamp circuit with a
> realistic 741 opamp model. gEDA is friendly to everything BUT Windows,
> and is nowhere near as refined as OrCad. I would like students to be
> able to run the software on their laptops without a network
> connection, which eliminates more options. Any suggestions?""
>
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