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Fedora Electronic Lab 8 - Stable release

Last Thursday, 8th November 2007, the very first Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD was released officially. This LiveCD is based on Fedora 8 KDE along with almost all electronic design tools.

Fedora's Electronic Laboratory provides a complete electronic laboratory setup with reliable open source design tools in order to meet one's requirements to keep one in pace with current technological race. Project management tools such as spreadsheet, gantt diagram, mindmapping tools.... are also included. This Electronic Laboratory can either be deployed by:
  • yum or
  • a Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD

Download Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD NOW via torrent

Read the abstract, the flyer or its website for more details.

For Fedora 8's release, "Fedora Electronic Lab" targets mainly the Micro-Nano Electronic Engineering field. It introduces:
  • tools for Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Design Flow process to the Fedora Collection.
  • extra open source standard cell libraries supporting a feature size of 0.13µm. (more than 300 MB)
  • extracted spice decks which can be simulated with gnucap/ngspice or any spice simulators.
  • interoperability between various packages in order to achieve different design flows.

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Aliening FEL RPM packages to DEB

Gabriel Augusto Ordónez is a
  • Electrical Engineering student from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá-Colombia South América)
  • Linux enthusiast and a
  • debian GNU linux user.

  • He tried Fedora Electronic Lab live cd and saw that this fedora version has several electronic packages which was useful to him.

    He defined "the Fedora Electronic Laboratory" as a "great great project". Unfortunately, debian
  • rejected alliance's inclusion in their repositories,
  • doesn't have other simulation tools or standard cells, or
  • has old versions of those simulation tools.

    Since Debian uses .deb, Gabriel is using "Alien" to convert the FEL rpm packages in .deb one by one. He is concerned about compatibility problems between fedora and debian.

    Thereby, I'm calling to contributors of other distributions to package FEL packages for their distributions, thus making their users' life easier. Gabriel is a brave guy and has enough patience, others don't.

    JulienBoucaron was synchronizing his Ubuntu alliance deb package with that of Fedora's. He even requested a package review for Ubuntu MOTU Science, but the package review didn't go far.
  • Fedora-Core: Open Source Fedora Core Blog

    Fedora Electronic Lab Live CD Test 3

    Fedora Electronic Lab Live CD Test 3 was released yesterday.

    Use get-fedora wiki page to download a copy.

    Fedora-Core: Open Source Fedora Core Blog

    LiveCD: Fedora Electronic Lab - development version

    The first development snapshot (04/09/2007) of Fedora Electronic Lab Livecd was released yesterday night.

    This development livecd FEL is downloadable via torrent for i386.

    It is meant for testing purposes only. This is to be a new spin with Fedora 8. See Features/FedoraElectronicLab for more of the details about the spin.

    Fedora-Core: Open Source Fedora Core Blog

    Creating his Fedora Electronic Lab livecd

    Someone asked me by email, when he will get his FEL livecd ? Well one should be out for F8Test2, following the discussion with Jeremy.

    However if one is so eager to get his livecd he/she can spin his own at home:

    # yum install livecd-tools --enablerepo=development
    # mkdir livecd
    # cd livecd
    # wget http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/livecd-fedora-electronic-lab.ks
    # wget http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/livecd-fedora-base-desktop.ks
    # livecd-creator --config=livecd-fedora-electronic-lab.ks \
    --fslabel=Fedora-Electronic-Lab

    In about one hour you will have a rawhide based livecd.
    Everyday one will be surprised with rawhide. Today it was something good and very professional. It's the new theme for Fedora 8.

    Grub:rhgb:KDE: It is a custom for fedora that just before Test 2, KDE loses its wallpaper. However it keeps up the suspense, how will the new wallpaper look like. Someone has already seen it ?

    Fedora-Core: Open Source Fedora Core Blog

    Livecd for Fedora Electronic Lab

    Following the discussion on Fedora Electronic Lab on the Fedora development mailing list, I've started creating a livecd for Fedora Electronic Lab this weekend.

    Well a few hours ago, livecd-creator ended with a 691 MB image (built from yesterday's rawhide). It looks great, while my previous trials exceeded 750 MB. That reminds me of kadischi.

    Firefox and its dependencies are pulled up. So in this live image, firefox is present. Hopefully soon the directory ownership on its dependencies such zenity might be fixed, thus making room for more applications. Possibly by then, gspiceui and gwave would be on the live image.

    Two additional things this live image would have by default:
    1. keyboard switch applet on kicker. (I have 2 laptops with 2 different keyboard layouts - fr and de. Believe me I know what's its like when "us" keyboard layout is by default. I believe this will encourage more users to try the demos from alliance or magic on the livecd and save their data on their usb sticks.)
    2. "keep all below" and "keep all above" buttons on the window decorator.

    Simply while using graal, xsch and dreal (from alliance), your desktop will be full with windows. Layout editing will be a pain in the neck as one have to keep on shifting windows as you can see in the following screenshot. Having those two buttons will ease the load of stress one might have.


    Some work still need to be done in terms of failed services (nscd and avahi till now) upon boot. I haven't yet tested the Jeremy's fix for rhgb yet. Currently, there is a live image built going on, while I'm writing. Once it's completed I'll post the kickstart file for comments from those on the fedora livecd mailing lists.

    Ah yes, I know there was discussions like "whether fedora livecds have gcc on it or not" in the past. Due to lack of space gcc wasn't included. But on the Fedora Electronic Lab live image gcc will be present.

    Fedora-Core: Open Source Fedora Core Blog