Linux will become an increasingly popular engineering platform in the future.
Professional-quality CAD applications for circuit design are becoming available from programmers within the free-software community.
For electronics, the gEDA suite is the preferred tool set for circuit design.
Analog circuit simulation using SPICE is also now available on Linux.
This HOWTO describes the design flow employed to perform SPICE simulations using gEDA...
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http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/SPICE/intro.html
10/12/2007