As a programmer I have a Vista machine which is used almost exclusively for testing my own software on Vista. I can tell you that Microsoft DAO/Jet does not run properly on Vista (in a most bizarre way), and the services API is broken (the reasonable-looking code off the Microsoft website for setting up a service works fine on XP and W2k, but on Vista fails with an error code that makes no sense. How is anyone supposed to follow the rules if even Microsoft don't know what are the rules?). Also I regularly lose network connectivity, a problem that thankfully generally resolves itself in anything from minutes to hours. The latter two problems have both be seen on Vista PCs not maintained by myself. So it would not surprise me in the least if Kicad runs erratically on Vista, and like Donald my advice would be "use a different OS". I use XP.
Regards, Robert. Donald H Locker wrote: > My experience with Vista was very bad for almost every piece of > software on it. Even M$s own code behaved very badly, and consumed > excessive resources. Crashes, hangs, bizarre results - I saw > everything. M$ blames it on the software vendors not "following the > rules" but I think that's blaming the victim - they changed much of > the kernel interface without regard for existing code and expected > every ISV would rewrite to the new "standard" that they dictated. No > one (well, very few) has that kind of time and money. > > Anyway, I would recommend XP if you have to use M$, else switch to a > Linux OS (I've changed a few friends and family to Ubuntu without a > substantial gain in their sanity and a reduction of my "can you help > me" load) and don't look back. Kicad runs nicely on Linux, as does > OpenOffice, Evolution, QCad, ..... > > Donald. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "bkanobe" <[email protected]> To: > [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 10:14:34 PM > GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [kicad-users] Re: pcbnew > crashes with zone fill -> more information > > I sent some stuff to Jean-Pierre and he didn't seem to have any > issues. Though he was trying it in XP and I in Vista (no idea why > that would matter.) > > In any event, its seems to be something about the kbool libraries. I > will eventually look into it but just haven't had the time lately. I > don't think its a huge issue and have effectively worked around it > with a hack for the time being. > > I would be interested if anyone else is seeing this problem in vista > though. > > Cheers, Matt > > > > --- In [email protected], Dick Hollenbeck <d...@...> wrote: > >> >> bkanobe, >> >> >> >> Can you provide a set of datafiles and a procedure description >> which will cause the crash 100% of the time? >> >> If so, somebody can probably track this down and get it fixed. >> >> Dick >> > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting > your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked > up by the creator of Kicad. Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for > details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad > library. For building Kicad from source and other development > questions visit the kicad-devel group at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.56/2302 - Release Date: > 08/14/09 06:10:00 >
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