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

Stuart Brorson wrote:


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. 


It's even less expensive than that.  What modern PC doesn't have at least
a 100Gb drive?  And you use all that space for what... pron movies?

Every linux ISO I have met has a partition editor that will quite happily
take some of the 80Gb left on your 100Gb drive and form a nice little
10 to 20Gb partition for Linux.  And as any linux user well knows linux
can be quite happy in a partition that size.

That makes adding linux to your pc bag-of-tricks free.

-Chuck
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