Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2 - eagle

2005-01-01 Thread Igor Izyumin
Alvin Oga wrote: if you're referring to eagle ... sure you do have source code in its entirity Where did you get that one? Eagle is a binary-only program, and source code is most certainly NOT available.. -- Igor

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2 - eagle

2005-01-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya marvin > marvin > > There is no source code release - It's a commercial offering. if you're referring to eagle ... sure you do have source code in its entirity c ya alvin

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2

2005-01-01 Thread M. P. Dickens
> Alvin Oga wrote: the question was where to find the source code There is no source code release - It's a commercial offering. I played with it a few years ago and imho, it's good for hobby stuff, but thats about it. OTOH, pcb is open source and more powerful (If you compare both offerings, pcb wi

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2

2005-01-01 Thread Charles Lepple
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:54:54 -0800 (PST), Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what claus did was to make it nic and pretty ( newbie readable ) > without all the jibberish during bootup good thing it hasn't ever failed for me... I wouldn't know how to interpret all those pretty colors. :-) > > A

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2

2005-01-01 Thread Charles Lepple
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:59:38 +1100, John Sheahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > i prefer "{random}ix that is backed up with a purchase order :-) > > where i'm tasked to make it jump up and down and > > take them to the moon > > > > - i have yet to find "one" fe

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2

2005-01-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya john > Sorry, I'm having real trouble connecting your response to the mail you > quote. Knoppix live and its hardware detection is pretty different to > most commercial distos of any flavour of OS. Seems a pretty relevant > feature here too. iirc, knoppix hw detection is a derivative of

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2

2005-01-01 Thread John Sheahan
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya charles On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:05:28 -0800 (PST), Alvin Oga i prefer "{random}ix that is backed up with a purchase order :-) where i'm tasked to make it jump up and down and take them to the moon - i have yet to find "one" feature that cannot be done with any random

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2

2005-01-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya charles > On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:05:28 -0800 (PST), Alvin Oga > > i prefer "{random}ix that is backed up with a purchase order :-) where i'm tasked to make it jump up and down and take them to the moon - i have yet to find "one" feature that cannot be done

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2

2005-01-01 Thread Charles Lepple
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:05:28 -0800 (PST), Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi ya charles > > > This is one of the advantages of Knoppix-- you still have the Debian > > infrastructure, so if you do decide to install to a hard drive, you > > can do 'aptitude update' and get the latest .debs.

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2

2005-01-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya charles > This is one of the advantages of Knoppix-- you still have the Debian > infrastructure, so if you do decide to install to a hard drive, you > can do 'aptitude update' and get the latest .debs. not really an advantage, as one can do "one line updates" with just about any distro ...

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2

2005-01-01 Thread Stuart Brorson
> Question: Once a user installs geda using the iso distribution > how are upgrades / bug fixes going to be handled between releases? > Also, in the event this question has already been posed and answered, > I must have missed it and appologize (I don't have the time to read > every email in every

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Suite CD - round 2

2005-01-01 Thread Charles Lepple
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:32:47 -0500, M. P. Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: Once a user installs geda using the iso distribution > how are upgrades / bug fixes going to be handled between releases? This is one of the advantages of Knoppix-- you still have the Debian infrastructure, so

Re: gEDA-user: Panelize PCB Postscript?

2005-01-01 Thread John Luciani
There is a utility called psnup (in the psutils package) that may be able to do this. Psnup puts multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet of paper. The imagemagick utilities could also do this but I beleive they will rasterize the files. The montage program creates a composite image by

gEDA-user: Panelize PCB Postscript?

2005-01-01 Thread Bob Paddock
There are several programs that will take Gerber files and panelize them step-and-repeat style. Is there an equivalent program that can do the something to PCB's Postscript output? I want to print on my local printer, not send off to board house.

gEDA-user: Twibright Labs announce Inferno

2005-01-01 Thread Karel Kulhavy
Ronja Inferno (infrared communication system) with infrared transmitter Nebulus has been released. http://ronja.twibright.com/inferno/ Ronja Benchpress (optical measurement bench for lenses and LEDs) with signal transmitter Starquake and receiver Audiofire and LED holder Ledholder has been release