Homebrew PCBs

keith wrote:
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 >
 >
 > The latest Ubuntu works well with gEDA. It also automagiclly sets up 
for dual
 > boot if WinXP is already on the box. I used Orcad SDT nearly 20 years 
ago and
 > so find gschem (gEDA schematic) very easy to use. It's also easy to 
create
 > new symbols. I've used PDB a bit, but have yet to figure out how to 
create
 > new footprints for PCB.
 >
 > On the windows side I haven't found any free schematic capture 
software that I
 > like nearly as well as gschem. FreePCB is quite nice for board 
design. I find
 > the FreePCB footprint editor really easy to use. There is a Yahoo 
group, bit
 > it's pretty well uninhabited.
 >
 > Lately I have done a couple of boards using gschem for the schematic 
capture
 > and netlist cration. I then manually edited the netlist to meet FreePCB
 > requitements. FreePCB expects the first line of the file to be 
*PADS-PCB*. I
 > am contemplatig a perl script to map footprint names from PCB to 
FreePCB and
 > otherwise "fix" the netlist file, but so far it's only an idea.
 > --
 > Keith Bowers - Thomasville, NC

I just tried Ubuntu v6.x as I had it on CD and it looks great. I am 
going to download the latest version so I can do the automagic dual boot 
on my old spare pc.
Thanks,
Dave
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