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Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 21:13:02 -0400
From: Ian Chapman <ichapman AT videotron DOT ca>
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On 07/25/2014 09:18 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> By the way DJ how do the distros update their repositories?  Debian are
>> supposed to have checked it before making it freely available, thus
>> Debian is more stable but behind on any fixes and feature.  In any case
>> they will not be able to check gEDA much other than it runs without
>> being a layout artist.  Ian.
> It's up to the distro, but in the case of Debian, I happen to know the
> maintainers *are* layout artists.
>
I does work well on the Debian distributions that I have used.  I have 
had to get over some awkward video system situations, ie Nvidia failed 
on Mint 15 and I updated to a Radeon HD6450 (vga=771 to boot)  and wow 
fantastic improvement all over.  But even at that my wife complains 
about tick boxes with a Writer document report, it's bad on two machines 
but great on a third.  I guess there are little hicks in the various 
drivers deep deep down below gEDA and Writer. I'm not sure how to 
classify and report these system level annoyances.  Ian