Yea, seems the issue you have is that the evolutionary curve DOS/Windows based EDA tools underwent over the last 15 or so years is a cumulative effort of a large body of work with thousands of users and developers doing it day-in day out.
Due to the complexities involved (as with almost any CAD program) it's not quite as easy as knocking off an office suite. Couple that with the competitive nature of the EDA market, as well as the possibility of being able to eventually market a tool that these corporations such as Altium look to compete with big $$$ UNIX-based tools and it becomes big business. Look at Altium, right or wrong, it's now a $10,000 USD package. Add that the final product is costly, as are the mistakes in fab/assy if the tools screws up. This might be another reason why most are reluctant to switch. With that in mind, it's no wonder that the GNU stuff is a bit behind. Shame too, cause I'd love to see it a good Linux open source EDA system myself. But just looking at the recent gEDA PCb project bugtrack and they got a way to go... In a message dated 4/24/2007 3:08:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Unless they've done something with it recently, it's limited to an 8 layer > PCB. > > If you're looking for a free open source professional package to run > under Linux - it doesn't exist. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
