That a pretty neat idea!  So you use X11 to export the eagle interface
back to the mac?

I run a shuttle XPC (mini PC) with windows just so I can do PCB work /
PIC programming, might be cool to try linux on it, and run that machine
headless.  Mac for everything else!

Ed

On 3 Mar 2004, at 10:42, William Chops Westfield wrote:

> My main computer is mac.  Lovely 23 inch LCD display, dual processors,
> 370G of disk, etc.
> But it won't run assorted PC applications, including Eagle...
>
> So...  I plucked an old 266MHz PII machine from the dumpster,
> put debian linux on it.  With X.  And it is now a "macintosh
> peripheral."  I fire up X on the mac, run the "Eagle" menu item
> I created in the application menu, and it seems to work pretty
> well...  this should work for assorted pic-programming tools as
> well, assuming they have linux versions that I can't compile
> for the mac ("parallel port?  What's a parallel port?  Serial ports,
> now - macs USED to have them...")
>
> I'm still working a bit on the file sharing, but it's looking
> pretty sweet, and I'm pretty happy about it.
>
> BillW
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