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

On 5/3/2005 9:04 AM Chuck Harris wrote:

Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott wrote:

On 5/2/2005 11:30 AM Tom Loredo wrote:


 > 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 



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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.



On the otherhand, most anybody can find a spare 20G partition on their
hard drive these days.  Load linux into that partition, ask Grub to make
your machine a dual boot machine with *gack* 'doze as the primary/default
boot, install gEDA in the usual way, and join the crowd.

But then I've booted into Linux, and can't reach the Windoze apps when a customer calls to ask about his account balance (Quickbooks), etc., etc. I reckon a separate cheap-o junk box running Linux is the better solution. But is it worth doing all that just to try out gEDA? My original post had to do with gEDA vs. my Ancient Creaky Protel 3.5 Client.

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