Re: gEDA-user: Running gEDA On an AMD Athlon

["Rob Butts" <r.butts2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot, I'm pretty sure I saw that in my searches.  It will be great
not to have to install it before checking it out.

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Gregory
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:51 PM
To: gEDA user mailing list
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Running gEDA On an AMD Athlon

Make sure you download and install a modern distribution.  It would be
difficult to get the requirements correct using Redhat 7.1 (that must
be close to 10 years old now).  CDs to install the newest versions of
Fedora, Gentoo, or Ubuntu are all easily downloaded and work
effectively with gEDA (Ubuntu will even mail them to you).  You can
also very easily install a reasonably recent version of gEDA using the
package management system for those distributions (yum, emerge and apt
respectively).

For your first Linux install, don't use a 64bit version, it will only
give you headaches for now.  32bit versions of Linux work fine on
64bit processors.  There was even a CD image passed around for a live
CD of Ubuntu with gEDA installed, so you can try it out without
installing.  I played with this a little and it worked fine (you can
probably search the achive for the link).

Good luck.
-Jeff

On 5/30/07, al davis <ad136@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Rob Butts wrote:
> > I have checked the gEDA:documentation archives for anything
> > relating to AMD and wasn't able to find anything.
> >
> > I have checked the manual and the FAQ section and found
> > nothing relating to AMD.
>
> It is distributed as source, and should work on any adequate
> processor.  Like I said, check to see if the distribution has
> the packages.  If it has the packages, it works.  If it
> doesn't, you can still build from source.
>
> Some of us develop on a AMD-64-x2.
>
> It even works on a Mac with power-pc.
>
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