AVR-Chat

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 13:10, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> I wish to switch to FreeBSD (windows gives me the shits) and I

Windows has always been a diarrhoetic. :-)

> need some good tools, what do you recommend, considering I do a
> lot of SMD and 4 layer PCB's it needs to be a good tool. I
> currently use Protel99SE and it does not run under wine. I do not
> really want to install XP in Vmware just to be able to run
> Protel, and prepared to shelve Protel, if I can find a good cad
> package to replace it.

Why don't you download the free version of Cadsoft Eagle
(http://www.cadsoft.de/) for Linux and see if it'll play under
FreeBSD?

If it works, then you can licence a "professional" version of Eagle
and fly with that.

If it doesn't work, you may have to "slum it" with Linux instead.
:-)

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