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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/28/2014 09:47 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> On 06/28/2014 08:47 AM, Michael McCormack wrote:
>> This might be a bit off topic - I would like to know what distro and what branch is used
>> to Kicad development.
>>
>> Background - 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 and as a result, when I try to install from source I run into innumerable library
>> problems because of the old libraries that are invariably required.  I will say at the
>> moment, I'm not sure that Kicad is one of the packages I use that requires cutting edge
>> libraries; but, I am trying to get ready for the next rebuild of my PC. 
>>
>> I don't want to become a Linux systems guru, I want to remain an embedded developer; so is
>> there an off the shelf distro that is used for development of Kicad?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mike
> 
> 
> You should become a Linux systems guru.
> 
> It is not mutually exclusive with being an embedded developer.  Your brain is big enough.

Someday you may get asked to write your embedded stuff on embedded linux.

At that point, aha, you are the genius.

I use:

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"


Far more important than the distro is the horsepower of your computer.  I don't use a
notebook.  I've never found one that can match a high end desktop/workstation.

If you are going to be compiling, you want that time to be minimal.  I think I have 8
cores, 12 gbytes of RAM, and super fast disks.  That's the priority.  I can compile all of
wxWidgets for linux in about 35 seconds.


Dick