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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I use Linux only for development of embedded systems, and would like to
get relatively recent copies of
> Kicad, Spice, Code::Blocks, OpenOCD, GDB, etc.  But every off the shelf
distro seems to only have two year
> old releases of at least one of these packages

Have a look at Arch Linux or one of its derivatives that has a GUI right
from the start, like Manjaro Linux. The bleeding edge software is in the
repositories. You can also build the latest KiCad automatically with the
package kicad-bzr from the Arch User Repository.


On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2014-06-28 17:00 GMT+02:00 Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > I agree 100% with you. Besides I think that using Linux should never a
> > pain in the ass like being able to recompile kernel by yourself and so
> > on. I am not a Linux expert and _love_ Ubuntu for being so easy (and hate
> > it for Unity but that's another story...)
>
> What option are you talking about exactly?
>
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