Re: gEDA suite vs my creaky old Protel Client 3.5?

Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott <j.michael.elliottAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[. . . . snip . . . .]

: Well, I don't know if buying a Mac and re-buying all the apps I listed
: just to run gEDA is going to be much of a cost savings over updating my
: Protel 3.5 Client to the Latest. It is certainly a lot more expensive
: than just staying as-is.

I never understand the folks who cite the cost of migrating away from
Windoze. If you live in a metropolitan area of any size, it's
quite common to see older PCs thrown away regularly. It doesn't take
much time or effort to assemble a collection of free PCs by scrounging
them from the trash. If one doesn't work, you can use it to provide
parts for another one. Then, download an .iso of your favorite Linux
distribution, install it on one of the junk PCs, and -- voila --
you've got a free engineering workstation more powerful than a
high-end Sun box from the later '90s [1].

Some of my gEDA test platforms were assembled this way. After all,
software testing should take place on heterogeneous systems!

Anyway, cost is no excuse to not try out gEDA on Linux.

Stuart

[1] Yes, this argument doesn't apply to the case of a corporate IT
department. But it does apply to a one-man consulting shop, which is
the situation here, right?
.

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