gEDA-user: Re: Pointer to 3d CAD?

[Karel Kulhavy]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:05:21AM +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov wrote:
> 
> > Ditto for the Xilinx toolchain on my box.  At least once you are
> > registered, get the free-as-in-beer download, Xilinx XST works natively
> > and without monkeying with license keys.
> 
> I've tried it, but got turned off in utter disgust when I saw that the
> thing is packaged in encrypted (!) ZIPs specifically to make it
> impossible to bypass their stinky GUI installer.
> 
> > The free download version
> > of Quartus-II I found seems to need WINE and (no cost) keys.
> > Can you confirm that, or did I do something wrong?
> 
> I'm not using that version, I'm using the native Linux version.  You can

I have OpenBSD. Is there also a native OpenBSD version? :) And btw, reasonably
recent wine doesn't work on OpenBSD :)

CL<

> download it from ftp.altera.com:/outgoing/release.  It's a normal tar
> file containing .tar.gz's inside, no GUIs crammed down your throat.  In
> fact I can't even use its GUI at all, only the command line utilities
> because my bootleg license file only has FEATURE quartus but not the
> other FEATURE (altera_mainwin_lnx or quartus_mainwin_lnx, something like
> that) that enables the GUI.  But that's perfectly fine with me because
> command line tools are exactly what I want, my 80-column mind can't
> handle GUI.
> 
> MS
> 
> 
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