Re:Ask HN: Best open source and/or free EDA tooling
by stavros on Monday January 29, 2024 @10:44AM
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I know this is a bit of a useless comment, but doesn't only offering a Windows package prevent most people who want to use this from trying it? Horizon might be amazing, but if I can't run it on Linux, I've closed the tab.
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Re:Ask HN: Best open source and/or free EDA tooling
by Tryanasorus on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:26AM
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I've been very happily using Horizon on Ubuntu and Linux Mint for years.
And to be clear I'm not an advanced Linux user, I just followed the instructions here and I can install and update it in the Software GUI like any other package: https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.ht...
Re:Ask HN: Best open source and/or free EDA tooling
by stavros on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:27AM
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There's a Linux package?! Then it's a massive blunder that the "Download" button on the home page goes to the GitHub releases, where there's only a Windows installer.
Re:Ask HN: Best open source and/or free EDA tooling
by atoav on Monday January 29, 2024 @01:35PM
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Huh? There is a Debian package: https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.ht...
I run it both on Windows and Linux and it works fine. The only thing it does not run on (as of now) is OSX, because of some GTK-issue, but once that is resolved there is no reason why it couldn't.
Re:Ask HN: Best open source and/or free EDA tooling
by eqvinox on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:35PM
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I think there's a misunderstanding there, Horizon EDA is available as a standard distro package; there's no "Linux package download" because there's no need for one (and creating packages as a 3rd party is a minefield.)