Hi Dan, On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 19:48 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote: > Stefan Salewski wrote: > > KiCAD: I was asked about it some days ago, here it is > > > >> I know KiCAD, but I have never used it myself yet. > >> When I started with free EDA tools 4 years ago gEDA was looking more > >> "professional", so I chose gEDA/PCB. But KiCad and gEDA have make > >> progress since that time. So I think KiCad can be used for production > >> work now. > >> > >> The main difference is, that KiCAD is available for Windows too, and > >> that KiCad is more integrated. Some people like this integration very > > Just as a note, the last several pcb releases have included windows > binary installers. As far as I know, the limitations of pcb under > windows is some of the m4lib -> newlib converted footprints had a naming > conflict so a few footprints are missing and also since windows doesn't > support printing postscript with lpr, we don't have a direct printing > path (have to print to postscript and convert to pdf or something) under > windows. The sourceforge logs actually show *more* (by a lot) downloads > of the windows installer than the source code. There could be a number > of different factors as to why that is and could lead to a number of > different conclusions. I think about the only safe conclusion is that a > moderately large number of windows users were interested enough to > download it. > > -Dan >
FWIW, One *nix box over here competing with a XP PC (with mechanical design closedware) and a Vista laptop (which after buying didn't accept dual boot setup due to some HW close-out issue, thanks a lot bummers @ Packard Bell). So it's 1 *nix vs. 2 windoze ;( Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
