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engines. It is similar to

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and

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. It makes use of

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technology and is meant to run on free Unix-like operating systems such as

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et al.

History

Oregano was first developed by Richard Hult, who worked on it until 2002. Most of the design ideas and a lot of the current code are still his. He released various versions, up to version 0.23. All of them were based on the Spice engine, and supported only the old GNOME libraries. When Richard Hult stated that he wouldn't be able to continue developing the software, Ricardo Markiewicz and Andrés de Barbará continued his work, releasing a renewed Oregano, with support for the latest graphical libraries and adding support for the

engine, among other things. Marc Lorber ported the whole code base from gtk+-2.x to gtk+-3.x. Bernhard Schuster took over the project in early 2013.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oregano (Software) GNOME Applications Engineering software that uses GTK Free software programmed in C Free electronic design automation software Electronic design automation software for Linux Free simulation software Electronic circuit simulators

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