Fastest schem. draw software

I just went to their website, and am downloading kicad.tgz as I type. :-) ".tgz" is the extension that Slackware packages typically use. :-) :-) I'm going to take a look at it, and if it is, in fact, a Slack package, installing it will be trivial. :-)

I'll let you know!

Cheers! Rich

I've just downloaded kicad.tgz, and there's no installation. Just untar it to /usr/local/kicad, and it runs! Now, of course, I'll have to learn how to use it. Any "getting started with kicad" tutorials around?

Thanks! Rich

If you are willing do some learning, try gschem (part of geda). It is incredibly fast to draw schematics with once you learn it, and produces beautiful postscript and png output. See

See:

Darrell Harmon

Well, it's the oldest EXTANT distro: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:uxO8geR6a4oJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distributions+MCC+TAMU+SLS+the-oldest-distribution-still-in-active-development+Slackware

I think the Torvalds distro was the very first. 8-)

Don't know. Describe exactly what you want and I'll see if it can be provided -I moderate the group.

Why? I use Slackware and there is no slackpack for it but that is no barrier to using it.

Ian

Ian

OK. The user group mis only just over one month old so that might explain it.

No it was probably the very first Linux distro. You can use Kicad with any Linux distro.

Ian