Fedora’s Electronic Laboratory
One of my IRC buddies (he no longer hangs around) wahjava pointed a link to a fedora page. Its on “Fedora Electronics Laboratory” which contains a list of packages for Electronic Engineers and most packages are those that I have contributed to. I am extremely happy to see that a LiveCD has been created too. I would love to try it and give feedback. The interview with Chitlesh, the guy behind this project can be found in here
This actually made me think of a similar possibility in Debian/Ubuntu. May be a organised set of meta packages which in turn will install and configure related packages? for Eg. If I need tools related to Atmel AVR Microcontrollers to be installed, just do “sudo apt-get install atmelavr” or some such?? I am not sure if this is a good idea but can be refined to make it a good usable/useful one.
Suggestions from the community are most welcome. Or does Debian/Ubuntu already have a project on similar lines? I see a project DIVE on launchpad but seems not be active.
November 9th, 2007 at 4:03 am
Hello, I’m happy that you were interested in fedora electronic lab.
Actually no, there isn’t similar possibility in Debian/Ubuntu.
This is something that you have forgotten.
>> “Fedora Electronic Lab” targets mainly the Micro-Nano Electronic Engineering field.
NO other distribution provides tools for this field, unfortunately.
I tried to help some ubuntu contributors to bring those design tools on ubuntu’s official repositories. but in vain. I’m sad as well.
http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-motu-science@lists.ubuntu.com/msg00000.html
surely we had to include other existing electronic packages (e.g avr..) under the fedora umbrella. But please don’t confuse this with the _real_ objective of FEL (VLSI simulation tools).
you will find my real 4 objectives intended for F8’s release on http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/
Well now, if other distributions vlsi desgin tools on their repositories, they will have the work done “interoperability” by fedora on upstream, without much effort.
regards,
Chitlesh
November 19th, 2007 at 12:59 am
HI,
I am new to Linux and downloaded Fedora 8 i386 version, I was shocked to see, it had no electronic laboratory. Then again i downloaded FEL live CD.
I would like to work on the Electronic and would like to save my Data on the hard disk.
Please let me know how to install these tools through Live CD to main fedora 8 OS, with out the help of internet.
Regards
Lohith
May 28th, 2008 at 2:28 am
if you are using the livecd only, you can save your data on a usb stick.