On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Dave Engvall wrote: >On Nov 4, 2008, at 4:49 AM, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: >> At 07:36 AM 11/4/2008, Jack Coats wrote: >>> I am guessing that Autocad probably has an internal version that does >>> run well on 'nix. >>> >>> A couple of years before Oracle allowed anyone to run it on Linux, >>> I ran >>> into a developer/maintainer >>> from Oracle. He had been running it without problems on Linux for >>> about >>> a year at the time. The only >>> thing that kept them from releasing it were the sales droids. The >>> Droids didn't want their product >>> to look inferior by running on 'toy' systems. Basically sales >>> droid FUD. >>> >>> I am wondering of Autocad has that issue too? >> >> Good question. Putting a commercial version of AutoCAD on my >> otherwise completely open source machine just kinda grates my >> sensibilities though. If they do, I bet it's designed to be run on >> high-end machines like Sun Solaris boxes, or HP machines, or >> SGI. They probably wouldn't want to get their fingers dirty making a >> commercial piece of software available to be run on an open source >> operating system. > >Just to sound like a broken record .... > >Synergy runs on Linux. You get 2.5 D and wireframe for free. It is >the CAM >part that cost $$. > >Just hit the Weber Systems site and download. > >BTW- it likes Hardy Heron Ubuntu. :-) > >My problem with Synergy is that is such a powerful package I'm not >bright enough >to use much of it.
I thought maybe it was me, glad to know there are others in this same boat. :) >And .... no I don't have a financial interest in Weber Systems, >darned! > >Dave > >> Mark >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win >> great prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in >> the world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "Only a brain-damaged operating system would support task switching and not make the simple next step of supporting multitasking." -- George McFry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
