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.padd...@gmail.com> 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?"" > > > > -- > http://www.wearablesmartsensors.com/ > http://www.softwaresafety.net/ > http://www.designer-iii.com/ > http://www.unusualresearch.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > -- http://www.coe.neu.edu/~efoss/ http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user