JeffM wrote: : DJ Delorie wrote: :>>PCB has an option for using a scanned image :>>as the background of the working area, :>>so you could design a circuit board using it as a reference. :>
: Mike Elliott wrote: :>Cool feature! That's PCB as in
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: Yup.
:> Sorry, I didn't specify the OS: Win 2000 or XP. :>
: We keep telling the gEDA boys : that a Knoppix-like CD of gEDA would be way cool.
*Chuckle* We gEDA boys keep telling folks like you to join the fun and contribute to the project by creating such a CD! ;-)
FWIW, there already is a Knoppix-like CD with gEDA on it: Quantian, which is a distro concentrating on providing open-source scientific and engineering apps. Here's more info:
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Also, Cambridge Univ (UK) has created a live CD for use in its engineering curriculum; their CD includes gEDA on it. The idea is that they can then use gEDA as the preferred EDA environment in their teaching and laboratories. Indeed, we gEDA boys are currently collaborating with the group at Cambridge on improving gEDA in ways making it more convenient for student use. Read about it here:
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I'm not sure if the folks at Cambridge will release the CD publically; that remains to be seen.
: Every consider a dual boot to Linux?
If you can purchase a new computer for a couple of hundered dollars, what's the barrier to just putting a brand spanking new Linux box on your desk next to your Windoze box & then loading the Linux box up with gEDA, PCB, Icarus Verilog, GTKWave, Gnucap, NGSpice, Octave, Scilab, and the zillions of other open-source packages out there? I mean, at some point the "Win 2000 or XP" requirement begins to sound like an excuse for simply being behind the curve. . . . . .
Stuart