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Ubuntu horrible horse
I’m horrified, having thought to have upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, only to find it catastrophic. Not that the few apparent changes to the operating system itself are so bad (though I haven’t seen anything improved), but the deletions from the repositories are as far as I am concerned, a disaster.
gEDA (electronics design suite) removed. GTK+3 (graphics and more) removed. Epson Stylus Photo R300 support gone. FreeCAD (3D CAD software) is supposed to generate code for 3D printers etc, but requires an add-on for that isn’t installable. If my printer isn’t supported, I doubt my scanner will be.
Of about the 200 programs I’ve written (over 15 years), most no longer run or compile. My PIC programming software can’t be installed. I’ve seen comments that make me suspect Debian and Fedora have made similar deletions, and when I have attempted to build the needed software from source (gtk3, gEDA), that’s failed too.
gEDA can no longer be found on Ubuntu 20.04 because no one’s maintaining it.
CREDIT: Redit: Peter Clifton, CC BY 3.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Electronic_design_automation#/media/File:Gschem_and_gerbv.jpg