Does anyone know a good PCB program for Linux. I hate using windows and would not like to if I don't have too.
Thanks
bvold,

Look into the gEDA suite. I made my Kestrel schematics with it (http://www.falvotech.com/projects/kestrel/1p3.php ). The only deficiency is that it does not yet properly handle buses (this is a work in progress as I type this), so while it can *draw* them, it cannot move them over to PCB for routing purposes. This is inconvenient, but I'm still quite happy with it.

That reminds me -- I really need to develop the PCB for the Kestrel 1p3.

eagle (www.cadsoftusa.com - if i remeber right)

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or www.cadsoft.de

Eagle is available for Windows and Linux. The resulting schematics, libraries etc. are interchangeble. You can add your own parts quite easy and a large library is available right from the start. OK, no 6502 or whatever but that's were friends are for, here is my library with lots of goodies: www.baltissen.org/files/0ruud.lbr

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newer releases are also avaiable for mac.
some time ago I made few library part from 65xx series (8580/6581 for example) but accidentally I deleted it and when I found out it was too late to recover files from hdd.

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www.vulture.c64.org
www.rafalszyja.republika.pl

I hate Windows too, and I still use Easy-PC Pro for DOS from Number One Systems (www.numberone.com) in England. We bought it from Ohio Automation over 10 years ago for $375. The name is very appropriate. Their last one for DOS was Easy-PC Pro X to use extended memory, but I didn't like that one-- in fact, the more they tried to advance things after about 1994 or 1995, the less I liked it. I didn't need the extended memory since I didn't have a bunch of TSRs, and I layed out our densest board of 500 thru-hole parts on a 19-square-inch 12-layer board with planes and chainsaws on a 16MHz '286 with 1MB of RAM (really using only 640K). They later introduced autorouters, but no autorouter on earth could do our boards. One thing I like about this CAD is that it doesn't try to be too automatic and tell me I can't do this or that like other CADs I've seen that try to second-guess you and "protect you from yourself". It did come with all the library parts, but I always make my own anyway in order to achieve greater layout density. You might contact them and see if they have an old one on the shelf they'll blow the dust off of and give you for a song. Next I just need to try that multi-tasking DR DOS...