It also loads to Mandriva via the
applications, install and remove menus. After searching for kicad,
checking the three boxes and clicking apply, it downloads and
installs to Applications, Sciences, Other without user intervention.
The process looks just like it does under Ubuntu, except the raw
downloads are rpm format instead of gz.

Both Ubuntu and Mandriva also have
no-brainer Qucs installs. Often I just import Tubepad symbols into
Gimp.

http://www.qsl.net/wd4nka/TEXTS/Tubepadf.html

A great thing about Linux is the
tremendous supply of science and technology applications.