Re: gEDA-user: Re: Some Linux distros to consider

[Dan McMahill <dan-atMUNGEDmcmahill_dot_net>]

Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:15:23 -0700, Jason Elder wrote:
> 
>> My goal
>> here was to find one that I can download, burn, install, have the latest
>> version of firefox and openoffice, and then install gEDA with minimum
>> hassle.
> 
> With these requirements you may choose a distro that has the geda tools in 
> its regular repository. All the subtilities that make a generic install 
> from the original source a time consuming experience have already been 
> resolved by the maintainer. Thus, a geda install is as little hassle as 
> any other utility the distro distributes.  
> 
> Debian may be a candidate. Choose "testing/etch" and do an install from 
> the net. No need to download and burn DVDs with stuff you likely will 
> never install anyway. It is in frozen state and will be declared "stable" 
> soon. Also, due to copyright headiness of the Mozilla foundation firefox 
> was renamed to "iceweasel" in debian.
> 
> I read in he other posts that fedora includes geda, too. Any other major 
> distro?


NetBSD's pkgsrc (which works on many other operating systems besides 
NetBSD) includes many/most of the tools we associate with geda.

See ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/cad/README.html


-Dan


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