Trying to decide whether to buy linux or windows license

Greetings Timur Aydin,

  on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 you wrote saying :

Hi,

 

I am trying to decide whether I should buy a linux license or a windows

license for eagle. I really want to use eagle under linux, but I have a

few concerns:

 

- I am using gentoo linux.

I also use Gentoo, and opted to buy the Linux license.

This linux distribution is moving quite fast

and so I am updating the distribution quite often. So, three important

external dependencies of eagle will change quite often, which are

Xorg, the linux kernel and cups printing system.

I don't use CUPS (it never wanted to work for me, so I reverted to

lprng) but I keep my Gentoo boxes fully up-to-date.

I am afraid that

eagle will stop working at some point in the future because of an

incompatibility. What kind of experiences did the community have in

this regard?

Eagle has never stopped working for me. Several of the Gentoo maintained

packages have, I might add, but never Eagle.

 

- Manufacturers of printers tend to focus on developing windows

drivers. I am afraid I will run into limitations and issues regarding

to printing when I use the linux version.

Again, I can't comment on CUPS or any brand-new-and-disimproved printer

you might buy. All I can say is that printing from Eagle on a Gentoo box

to a HP Laserjet 4 with NetJet card works fine for me.

 

I would hate to have to use eagle under windows, so I hope to hear that

I don't have to worry about the above ...

 

Well based on my experience I'd say you should be fine on Gentoo. You

might want to avoid KDE, though, because it has some unfortunate

keyboard mappings (it grabs  which Eagle would like to

use for alternate grid placements).

--

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Greetings Timur Aydin,

  on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 you wrote saying :

Hi,

 

I am trying to decide whether I should buy a linux license or a windows

license for eagle. I really want to use eagle under linux, but I have a

few concerns:

 

- I am using gentoo linux.

I also use Gentoo, and opted to buy the Linux license.

This linux distribution is moving quite fast

and so I am updating the distribution quite often. So, three important

external dependencies of eagle will change quite often, which are

Xorg, the linux kernel and cups printing system.

I don't use CUPS (it never wanted to work for me, so I reverted to

lprng) but I keep my Gentoo boxes fully up-to-date.

I am afraid that

eagle will stop working at some point in the future because of an

incompatibility. What kind of experiences did the community have in

this regard?

Eagle has never stopped working for me. Several of the Gentoo maintained

packages have, I might add, but never Eagle.

 

- Manufacturers of printers tend to focus on developing windows

drivers. I am afraid I will run into limitations and issues regarding

to printing when I use the linux version.

Again, I can't comment on CUPS or any brand-new-and-disimproved printer

you might buy. All I can say is that printing from Eagle on a Gentoo box

to a HP Laserjet 4 with NetJet card works fine for me.

 

I would hate to have to use eagle under windows, so I hope to hear that

I don't have to worry about the above ...

 

Well based on my experience I'd say you should be fine on Gentoo. You

might want to avoid KDE, though, because it has some unfortunate

keyboard mappings (it grabs  which Eagle would like to

use for alternate grid placements).

--

Rob Pearce                       http://www.bdt-home.demon.co.uk

The contents of this | Windows NT crashed.

message are purely   | I am the Blue Screen of Death.

my opinion. Don't    | No one hears your screams.

believe a word.      |