On Thursday 19 April 2007, Clayton wrote: > A friend of mine is asking me if he can use AutoCAD with Linux (wants > to move to Linux at some point, and this is the last blocker). I've > done some digging and AutoCAD 2002 seems to be working reasonably well > in Wine (or Crossover). Beyond that version though, there is a > noticeable lack of information. Has anyone here had any success with > newer versions of AutoCAD in Linux? > > We toyed with the idea of running a VMware instance, but that was > discarded as overkill since the end user would simply be running Linux > to run VMWare to run AutoCAD. Not much point there.
I manage a network for a bunch of engineers, and some of them DO run Vmware just to run AutoCad on their linux machines. Every alternative was found to be unsatisfactory. AutoCad was one of the most desired programs for support under Crossover, but I don't know if its there yet, it wasn't at the time this was set up. As for "Not much point there" I disagree. The "point" is to get his work done. Having windows sequestered inside a Vmware instance in a Linux machine and dedicated to a single application seems to be the best way to run Windows. All the spam and regular word processing tasks are handled by linux. It works very well, and with something like a Core 2 Duo its more than fast enough, not a resource hog, and stable as a rock. Vmware is awesome for this. In fact Vmware-Player would be better because its lighter weight, and you don't have to violate the VMware Workstation license by using it in "production". -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
