Re: gEDA suite vs my creaky old Protel Client 3.5?
> Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, UPS Worldship, Quickbooks,
> Quicken . . . those are my major reasons to stick with WinXP. I'm a >
> one-man show, not just an engineer.
Well, you can use all those under Mac OS X, *and* gEDA (I just
compiled the latest gEDA myself on OS X over the weekend, to give
it my first try---it was not painless, but neither was it horrible;
for OS X nerds, this was without Fink). I use all three major
platforms all the time (Linux, OS X, WinXP, in order of the amount
of time I spend on each). OS X is my definite favorite---the
niceties of a commercial OS, with the flexibility and power of Unix.
WinXP lags way behind the other two. However, I have to keep
it around, not for the non-engineering stuff you mentioned, but
for running software for demo and development boards from chip
manufacturers, and test eqpt. software. Until *those* folks come
around to *nix or OS X, I think WinXP and Win-centric EDA tools
are here to stay. Sadly!
-Tom
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