On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:19:50PM -0500, John Dozsa wrote: > Let me make a suggestion, one that would hopefully widen the interest in > gEDA. Make a Knoppix like CD that includes at the minimum the schematic > and pcb tools. The objective would be show MS Windows users, what the > gEDA tools are in an easy, reversible way. For me Linux on my home > computers first came via Knoppix. I was familiar with Unix at work on > non Intel hardware, but did not have the skills to install Linux on my > own. The painless self booting Knoppix experience encouraged me to > successfully install Linux on a spare PC. I believe many would jump at > the chance to try gEDA tools if it were Knoppix easy.
I asked Dirk to include geda in Quantian, which is a scientific variant of Knoppix: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/ geda and pcb are included, gerbv seems to be missing. If we ask him nicely, I am sure he will include missing packages (that are available as debian packages) in the next version: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/quantian_0.6.9.3.quantian.packages.txt Christian
