I' m a beginner in the FPGA world so i went to Xilinx and Altera site to download the free design software for learning the basics. I have saw that all the software downloadable is for windows. Am i wrong or is really so? If so for me is very strange or wrong. Because for a design kit that is freely distributed what platform is better than a free Operating System? Without entering in the discussion of the better quality of Linux. I hope i'm wrong and that someone tell me that i can download these software for my gentoo Linux distribution.
Thanks to all.