Re: gEDA-user: PCB Short and solder bridge elements.

2007-03-29 Thread Dan McMahill
Steven Michalske wrote: At work we have two elements that we use pretty extensively for making connections that are rarely configured. The first element is basically a surface mount device such as a 0603 but are shorted through the middle. This is useful for filters that might need to be

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Short and solder bridge elements.

2007-03-29 Thread John Luciani
On 3/29/07, Steven Michalske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The workaround i currently use is to draw up using normal 0603 parts and after my design meets DRC and has no shorted nets, I go through and manually short the elements. The dilemma here is that this is not error-proof, it also provides a d

gEDA-user: PCB Short and solder bridge elements.

2007-03-29 Thread Steven Michalske
At work we have two elements that we use pretty extensively for making connections that are rarely configured. The first element is basically a surface mount device such as a 0603 but are shorted through the middle. This is useful for filters that might need to be added later on and not ne

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA vs commercial product

2007-03-29 Thread John Griessen
Alessandro Baretta wrote: Dan McMahill wrote: As far as multipage projects Do you mean a flat hierarchy but with multiple pages? I'd like to have all my project in a single file. [jg]This sounds odd to me at first, but I like it. Why not have a page module defined within a file so one

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA vs commercial product

2007-03-29 Thread Alessandro Baretta
Dan McMahill wrote: Alessandro Baretta wrote: Two above all: a complete IEC symbols library for automation and distribution systems, and support for multipage projects. If you were to draw the symbols, that could solve the first problem! No, that's not an option. I work 14h a day, and I al

Re: gEDA-user: Re: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread Dan McMahill
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:15:23 -0700, Jason Elder wrote: My goal here was to find one that I can download, burn, install, have the latest version of firefox and openoffice, and then install gEDA with minimum hassle. With these requirements you may choose a distro that ha

gEDA-user: Re: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:15:23 -0700, Jason Elder wrote: > My goal > here was to find one that I can download, burn, install, have the latest > version of firefox and openoffice, and then install gEDA with minimum > hassle. With these requirements you may choose a distro that has the geda tools in

Re: gEDA-user: Re: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread Steve Meier
Simulations and physical layouts are dangerous. If you have anything more than schematics and you might have to demonstrate feasability and functionality. Steve M. On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 14:47 -0400, al davis wrote: > On Thursday 29 March 2007 14:45, al davis wrote: > > n Thursday 29 March 2007

Re: gEDA-user: Re: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread al davis
On Thursday 29 March 2007 14:45, al davis wrote: > n Thursday 29 March 2007 14:23, Stephen Williams wrote: > > Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > > > As from the next fedora buildsystem release (tonight): > > > Fedora users will be having: > > > geda-gattrib-20070216-1.fc6 > > > libgeda-20070216-1.fc6 > > >

Re: gEDA-user: Re: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread al davis
On Thursday 29 March 2007 14:23, Stephen Williams wrote: > Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > > As from the next fedora buildsystem release (tonight): > > Fedora users will be having: > > geda-gattrib-20070216-1.fc6 > > libgeda-20070216-1.fc6 > > geda-gschem-20070216-1.fc6 > > libgeda-devel-20070216-1.fc6 >

gEDA-user: Re: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread Stephen Williams
Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > As from the next fedora buildsystem release (tonight): > Fedora users will be having: > geda-gattrib-20070216-1.fc6 > libgeda-20070216-1.fc6 > geda-gschem-20070216-1.fc6 > libgeda-devel-20070216-1.fc6 > libgeda-doc-20070216-1.fc6 > geda-gsymcheck-20070216-1.fc6 > geda-symbo

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread evan foss
I used to use SuSE 9.0 on a PII but that failed eventually. (HDD crash) SuSE is good for starters but 9.0 wouldn't build later versions of gEDA for some reason. (that might have been related to the HDD problem) I used SuSE starting on version 6.3 and stayed until 9.2. I am currently on gentoo. I a

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread DJ Delorie
> My last challenge was to see if I could build lesstif hid version of > pcb. I can't seem to find all the dependencies missing on the SuSe 10.2 > distro. Anyone have any hints? On fedora, you need lesstif and lesstif-devel ___ geda-user mailing l

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread joeft
Jason Elder wrote: . Conclusion - 1. OpenSUSE works well, the development packs need to be installed post-install (I opened the software installer and selected every package that had development in the name). 2. Slackware - This distro should work well...I think that if you choose full

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread ldoolitt
Al - On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 03:03:06AM -0400, al davis wrote: > On Thursday 29 March 2007 01:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Debian. > debian unstable Well, I use both stable and unstable, depending on the need. > > That gets you versions: > > geda: 20060123-1 > 20061020 Oops. You're right.

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 20:15 -0700, Jason Elder wrote: > I'm pretty sure gEDA will work well with any distro out there. My > goal here was to find one that I can download, burn, install, have the > latest version of firefox and openoffice, and then install gEDA with > minimum hassle. Also, I've be

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread Kenneth Long
I like Gentoo for me. I like how it manages packages and avoids the dependency from out of date libraries. I installed the latest redhat on a machine recently and it felt like installing XP. It was beautiful. That machine will probably stay with redhat, but my kids use it for web surfing. Its not

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread Kenneth Long
I like Gentoo for me. I like how it manages packages and avoids the dependency from out of date libraries. I installed the latest redhat on a machine recently and it felt like installing XP. It was beautiful. That machine will probably stay with redhat, but my kids use it for web surfing. Its not

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread Ryan Seal
The Gentoo install is time consuming and sometimes tricky, but the end result beats everything I have tried. Installation of gEDA is as simple as "emerge geda" (unless you want the nightly snapshots of course). Gentoo has more scientific/engineering packages than anything I have seen ; and, yo

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread Günter Dannoritzer
Jason Elder wrote: [...] > Finally I settled on OpenSUSE 10.2 with the GNOME desktop. SUSE has older > versions of both firefox and openoffice, but needed to make a choice so I > settled on this one. I really like it, especially the GNOME desktop with the > X-sumthin-or-other that adds desktop

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
I'm pretty sure gEDA will work well with any distro out there. My goal here was to find one that I can download, burn, install, have the latest version of firefox and openoffice, and then install gEDA with minimum hassle. Also, I've been following some of the distros I second Larry's and Al

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-29 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On 3/29/07, al davis wrote: Fedora: RPM packages. good beginner distro, particularly if you have a poor net connection. Not as many packages. Enough on CD to be useful without net. Hello, Actually it is not very encouraging for a fedora packager (me) or any other "distro X" packager to see su