Homebrew PCBs

The real issue for me is the availability of libraries though I agree 
that schematic capture/edit is a deal breaker.  I kind of just assume 
that any reasonable system will have a decent one.  I like eagle 
because there are a lot of libraries free for the using and the lib 
editor is reasonably capable (though cumbersome to use).

If I were trying to push a new system, I'd have a gazillion libraries 
out there to make it trivially easy to get going.  Also, I'd have a 
bunch of predefined symbols (packages, schematic symbols) that I 
could use to quickly add a new part.  There is nothing more 
discouraging than to start a design and discover that you need to 
create all sorts of new parts completely from scratch.  A 15 minute 
job becomes hours of tedium in looking up layouts and so on.

Actually, if it were me, I'd figure out to import other systems 
libraries.  heh heh....

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Russell Shaw <rjshaw@n...> 
wrote:
> Stefan Trethan wrote:
> >>Anything that's not open source is not yours whatever you pay. If 
the
> >>vendor disappears, you're on borrowed time.
> >>
> > Any open sorce pcb software out there?
> 
> "pcb" for linux. I haven't used it, because there's no matching
> schematic editor i like.