"Could you imagine if your car **mechanic** came back to you"
The key word here is mechanic. YOU are not fixing the car yourself, YOU do not know how, YOU do not even have the block spongy handled tool.
When I say you, I mean the hypothetical person in your story who went to the mechanic. You may actually know how to fix a modern cars systems and have all the tools to do so, I wouldn't know.
Since this bug is so old maybe it has been fixed by now.
Of course the downside of PCB123 is that you don't get a Gerber file, you are required to use the PCB123 board fabrication services. I personally think they are pretty good so don't mind being tied to one vendor.
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Sparkfun.com has some good info to. As well as the dev/control boards you'll be looking for
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9038
You were doing so poorly then you utterly failed.
"Could you imagine if your car **mechanic** came back to you"
The key word here is mechanic. YOU are not fixing the car yourself, YOU do not know how, YOU do not even have the block spongy handled tool.
When I say you, I mean the hypothetical person in your story who went to the mechanic. You may actually know how to fix a modern cars systems and have all the tools to do so, I wouldn't know.
The only program I have found that satisfies your requirements (except the linux part) is PCB123 (PCB123.com)
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It looks like someone is trying to get it to work under Wine:
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-bugs/2004/06
Since this bug is so old maybe it has been fixed by now.
Of course the downside of PCB123 is that you don't get a Gerber file, you are required to use the PCB123 board fabrication services. I personally think they are pretty good so don't mind being tied to one vendor.