Vincent Béron
Wed, 03 Jul 2002 08:38:43 -0700
Le mer 03/07/2002 à 11:39, Andreas Mohr a écrit : > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:33:46AM +0300, P. Christeas wrote: > > My view is that we should focus on professional apps, such as CAD, some > > multimedia etc. There is professionals that won't switch to Linux until some > > unique apps they use can run under Linux. Games are an issue, too. > Very true. > IMHO AutoCAD is *very* important, as it's considered to be a leading CAD > package, with no UNIX version, ever.
Was a leading CAD package. It's still vastly used, but (in my experience) mostly to get access to old drawings. Newer stuff gets designed on SolidWorks, ProE, Catia, Mechanical Desktop and a couple others which do real 3D. > > > However, we couldn't make the rare apps run, until the API is mature, such > > that the most common ones will run, too. > > So, don't worry if Outlook or Money doesn't run, worry about Matlab (say..). > Matlab is the worst example that you could possibly have chosen. > You are aware of the fact that there is a Linux version ? Right. But are all toolboxes ported? The symbolic toolbox uses a Maple lib (not only m-files), and I'm not sure if it's been ported. Vincent