On 06/28/2014 09:47 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 06/28/2014 08:47 AM, Michael McCormack wrote: >> This might be a bit off topic - I would like to know what distro and what >> branch is used >> to Kicad development. >> >> Background - I use Linux only for development of embedded systems, and would >> like to get >> relatively recent copies of Kicad, Spice, Code::Blocks, OpenOCD, GDB, etc. >> But every off >> the shelf distro seems to only have two year old releases of at least one of >> these >> packages and as a result, when I try to install from source I run into >> innumerable library >> problems because of the old libraries that are invariably required. I will >> say at the >> moment, I'm not sure that Kicad is one of the packages I use that requires >> cutting edge >> libraries; but, I am trying to get ready for the next rebuild of my PC. >> >> I don't want to become a Linux systems guru, I want to remain an embedded >> developer; so is >> there an off the shelf distro that is used for development of Kicad? >> >> Cheers >> >> Mike > > > You should become a Linux systems guru. > > It is not mutually exclusive with being an embedded developer. Your brain is > big enough.
Someday you may get asked to write your embedded stuff on embedded linux. At that point, aha, you are the genius. I use: $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS" Far more important than the distro is the horsepower of your computer. I don't use a notebook. I've never found one that can match a high end desktop/workstation. If you are going to be compiling, you want that time to be minimal. I think I have 8 cores, 12 gbytes of RAM, and super fast disks. That's the priority. I can compile all of wxWidgets for linux in about 35 seconds. Dick _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
