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Fabless Semiconductor Business Model Presentation
Below you will find a presentation I made on how the free semiconductor business model can be attractive to academic institutions and research work.
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, debianrejected 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.
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
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 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.
Use get-fedora wiki page to download a copy.
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.
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.
gEDA/gaf stable version 1.2.0-20070902 released!
This morning, a stable version 1.2.0-20070902 of gEDA/gaf was released. FC-6 and rawhide packages have already been built whereas for F-7, I'm waiting for a manual override for interdependent package for libgeda.
One thing that struck me is that codes have been backported to guile-1.6 and at the same time providing compatibility for guile-1.8. Because some (older) distributions still use guile-1.6 (even the latest Ubuntu still has the old guile-1.6). Since Fedora Core 6 was released, guile-1.8 was included. Though there is a compat-guile-16, I don't package geda against it.
The current stable series of guile is 1.8 and the current stable release of Fedora is 7.
There has been 3 or 4 releases of gEDA with a lot of cool features and many enhancements. gEDA/gaf developers are active and can be easily contacted. They have worked so hard to provide quality gEDA/gaf applications the last few months. Users of those distributions are missing a lot if they cared about quality applications for their own personal work.
One thing that struck me is that codes have been backported to guile-1.6 and at the same time providing compatibility for guile-1.8. Because some (older) distributions still use guile-1.6 (even the latest Ubuntu still has the old guile-1.6). Since Fedora Core 6 was released, guile-1.8 was included. Though there is a compat-guile-16, I don't package geda against it.
The current stable series of guile is 1.8 and the current stable release of Fedora is 7.
There has been 3 or 4 releases of gEDA with a lot of cool features and many enhancements. gEDA/gaf developers are active and can be easily contacted. They have worked so hard to provide quality gEDA/gaf applications the last few months. Users of those distributions are missing a lot if they cared about quality applications for their own personal work.
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 ?
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 ?
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.
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.