PC Board Design With Unix? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Friday February 9, 2001 @11:22PM from the computers-aided-board-design dept.

BORRIS asks: "I work for an engineering research firm and I am trying to get our current NT network replaced by Linux. We already have Linux servers and all that stands between me and Nirvana is the collection of the NT Workstations. Most people here use StarOffice now which is good, but the Electronics Division designs their PC Boards on an old program called Tango. Does anybody know of a good replacement for Tango that's written for Linux?" As far as I can determine, Tango was a DOS-based PCB design program that has since been replaced by a program called P-CAD 2000, which is (still) a Win32-only program.

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Try Eagle by kju · 2001-02-09 19:22 · Score: 3

Never heard of eagle? I thought it was an very successfull pcb design software. As far as i know it has all the features a decent software package for pcb design needs.

They have linux versions available for years now, you can download a free or lite version for tryout as well as tons of component libraries from their webpage. See http://www.cadsoft.de