Re: gEDA suite vs my creaky old Protel Client 3.5?
- From: "JeffM" <jeffm_@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Apr 2005 17:06:24 -0700
>whatever the heck a livecd is,
>it sounds like it might let me eval gEDA
> Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott
>
A live CD is bootable.
(You don't have to install the OS on your HDD.)
Usually thought of in terms of Linux (Knoppix is at v3.8),
there are also some Windoze live CDs:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/15/0251249&mode=nested&threshold=5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/15/0251249&mode=nested&threshold=5#8284714
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/15/0251249&mode=nested&threshold=5#8284679
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/15/0251249&mode=nested&threshold=5#8284795
The reference in this thread is to a task-specific live CD.
There are such critters here (security, multimedia, games),
mixed in with the general-purpose variants:
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
To make a CD that boots Linux and opens gEDA
is the Holy Grail to many long-suffering Windoze users
(a bridge between a broken OS and a UNIX-like environment).
It does not currently exist.
As Stuart points out (regarding other areas of the project),
it will take talented people willing to donate their time.
>gEDA...I know that it doesn't run under WinXP
>
Stuart's .ISO is a distribution for the gEDA suite (no OS).
The binaries and installer are for Linux.
In theory, you can build a Windoze version of gEDA
using the source code
(which is available for any such "Open Source" software).
http://www.google.com/search?q=Cygwin-is+from-source
As Stuart says, the last Windoze build is terribly out of date.
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