Biju G C wrote:
I wish, I could start using GNU/Linux, but plenty other reason make me stay in MS-Win. Previously I had dual boot PC, but found that is not a good solution.
Finally I found Redhat's Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com), an open source UNIX emulation layer on MS Windows. And Cygwin/XFree86 (http://cygwin.com/xfree/) as its XWin.
Sounds good technically but what is the advantage if you have o keep Windows with all it's problems. In my personal opinion, we should switch over to GNU/Linux where it is possible and live with windows
where there is no other option. We have gotten rid of MSOffice, Explorer etc. but still living with some CAD software that has no GNU/Linux alternatives.
ajith
- also found KDE-Cygwin (http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/) and
CyGNOME (http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/) projects at SourceForge.net, which are KDE, GNOME porting on Cygwin.
Joined CyGNOME project, now I am trying to popularize it among windows users. Also looking for people to join and contribute to CyGNOME project. So please visit http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/ as well as please tell ur friends abt. it.
Thank you Biju
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On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:41:11AM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote:
Biju G C wrote:
I wish, I could start using GNU/Linux, but plenty other reason make me stay in MS-Win. Previously I had dual boot PC, but found that is not a good solution.
Finally I found Redhat's Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com), an open source UNIX emulation layer on MS Windows. And Cygwin/XFree86 (http://cygwin.com/xfree/) as its XWin.
Sounds good technically but what is the advantage if you have o keep Windows with all it's problems. In my personal opinion, we should switch over to GNU/Linux where it is possible and live with windows
where there is no other option. We have gotten rid of MSOffice, Explorer etc. but still living with some CAD software that has no GNU/Linux alternatives.
Did you try qcad? Any reviews?
Nagarjuna
Nagarjuna G. wrote:
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:41:11AM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote:
Biju G C wrote:
I wish, I could start using GNU/Linux, but plenty other reason make me stay in MS-Win. Previously I had dual boot PC, but found that is not a good solution.
Finally I found Redhat's Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com), an open source UNIX emulation layer on MS Windows. And Cygwin/XFree86 (http://cygwin.com/xfree/) as its XWin.
Sounds good technically but what is the advantage if you have o keep Windows with all it's problems. In my personal opinion, we should switch over to GNU/Linux where it is possible and live with windows
where there is no other option. We have gotten rid of MSOffice, Explorer etc. but still living with some CAD software that has no GNU/Linux alternatives.
Did you try qcad? Any reviews?
Nagarjuna
I am not an expert in CAD, but I feel that Qcad is good as far as it goes, but that is very limited. Most obvious limitation is that qcad is can do only to two dimensional drawings. There are other applications also where GNU/Linux has limitations, for instance, DTP. Scribus is devloping fast, and may be able to substitute for Pagemaker or Quark Express in the future. I am not sure about specialised applications like film and sound editing, although I think there are applications at different stages of development. I think even in GIS, although we have Grass, and a non-free (as in freedom) GIS called Spring (which is freely downloadable), they do not seem to be as powerful or as user-friendly as, say, ArcGIS. As GNU/Linux becomes more and more widely used, these proprietary applications may be ported to GNU/Linux, and continued to be sold and may still be popular. At this point, the quality of free software will have to start creating the demand. I think this will happen.
V. Sasi Kumar
Screen shots look great!!! http://www.qcad.org/index.php3?body=screenshots&product=qcad (Its long time since I use ACAD, so no other comments)
I wonder how many of our Engineering, Diploma, Polytechnique students tried this.
Cheers Biju
--- "Nagarjuna G." nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in wrote: --- On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:41:11AM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote: --- Biju G C wrote:
I wish, I could start using GNU/Linux, but plenty other reason make me stay in MS-Win. Previously I had dual boot PC, but found that is not a good solution.
Finally I found Redhat's Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com), an open source UNIX emulation layer on MS Windows. And Cygwin/XFree86 (http://cygwin.com/xfree/) as its XWin.
Sounds good technically but what is the advantage if you have o keep Windows with all it's problems. In my personal opinion, we should switch over to GNU/Linux where it is possible and live with windows where there is no other option. We have gotten rid of MSOffice, Explorer etc. but still living with some CAD software that has no GNU/Linux alternatives.
Did you try qcad? Any reviews?
Nagarjuna
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