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Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't



On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> Since the gEDA kit in the repo's seems to be rather broken, I thought I'd
> give eagle another chance

While I had no problems using Eagle on 64-bit Debian, I did not like
running closed software. A couple of months ago I switched to KiCad,
and I do not regret it. Some things are not as polished, but some
things are much better. There are things that are pretty bad, but a
huge benefit is that all developers acknowledge this, and are actively
working on improving whatever is bad, instead of the common "no, we
like it the way it is" mindset. Not to mention that CERN is devoting
resources to it.

The package available in Debian 8 is somewhat old because they just
recently released a new stable version after many years of
development. Personally I build it from the "bleeding edge" sources.
The website is http://kicad-pcb.org/ and instructions for downloading
and building should be available on the website.


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