On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > Since the gEDA kit in the repo's seems to be rather broken, I thought I'd > give eagle another chance
While I had no problems using Eagle on 64-bit Debian, I did not like running closed software. A couple of months ago I switched to KiCad, and I do not regret it. Some things are not as polished, but some things are much better. There are things that are pretty bad, but a huge benefit is that all developers acknowledge this, and are actively working on improving whatever is bad, instead of the common "no, we like it the way it is" mindset. Not to mention that CERN is devoting resources to it. The package available in Debian 8 is somewhat old because they just recently released a new stable version after many years of development. Personally I build it from the "bleeding edge" sources. The website is http://kicad-pcb.org/ and instructions for downloading and building should be available on the website.
