Hi, On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 10:12 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: > > Greetings everyone, > > Hello! > > > I am new to this list and to gEDA as well. I have been a long time user of > > EAGLE on windows. Early this year i transformed myself into a Linux user > > and supporter of everything Open Source. I have since been attempting to > > use everything FOSS. There were two applications that remained commercial > > on my box; EAGLE and VMLAB (An AVR simulator) through WINE. > > > > I have long been wanting FOSS alternatives for the above. Recently i > > discovered gEDA (Wonder how i missed that before though? ;-)) > > Yes, it is not easy to find. :D > > I have not fully understood the gEDA package yet but from the features list, > > i am impressed. I would however like to read any review of the package if > > available as i was unable to find anything worth while. Something in > > comparison with EAGLE would be excellent. Is there any? > > [snip] > The schematic capture program is very easy to learn and use. No real > learning curve there if you already know how to do schematic capture. > > GEDA's layout tool, PCB, is very capable and powerful. Some people > complain about it's user interface, but those complaints are > pertainent to older versions of the program. It's been ported to GTK But I would suggest not to compile it with GTK because the menus in GTK aren't complete. > and now is reasonably easy to use. It does present a little bit of a > learning curve, but so does any powerful layout tool. > > > I use EAGLE's Auto-Router quiet often and hence would like to know the > > performance of PCB in this regard. > > PCB has an autorouter which apparently works well. I don't use it, > but others do. > There are some problems with auto optimazation with Desing Rule Checker but one can live with it. > > I use Kubuntu 5.10 and my installation is hence from the Ubuntu > > repositories. > I don't suggest using ubuntu packages because a) they are old versions, b) they don't have everything included(for e.g. gattrib). > You should search through the lists to see what prerequisite packages > you need to install in order to use gEDA on Ubuntu. To do an install > from the CD you will need to make sure you have the development > libraries for a number of packages. The majority of complaints I see > about gEDA these days come from people who have consumer-grade distros > installed on their machines (SuSE 9.X personal, Fedora desktop, > Ubuntu, etc.). The consumer-grade distros often leave off important Complaints also come from gentoo and debian. And ubuntu is very similar to debian, it isn't really much different, except the gui. > header files and utilities used when compiling programs such as gEDA. > Some even leave off gcc! The gEDA Suite CD installer tries to take Yes this is correct, but sudo apt-get install gcc and you have it. > care of some dependencies, but these consumer-grade distros are > basically crippled when it comes to building software. Therefore, if > you can find a pre-compiled version for Ubuntu, you might want to use > that. > > Also note that gEDA is a GTK applications, whereas Kubuntu is Qt > (KDE). Therefore, you may need to even install the GTK stuff. > GTK is on every ubuntu... > If you have another machine, I'd suggest you load it up with Fedora 4 > Workstation instead of horsing around with Kubuntu. > There aren't any problems with ubuntu, at least with gnome if you compile from sources. Lucas
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