My mission as you all know (preaching to the already converted I know) is to try and wean myself off Windows. One of the tools I love and use everyday at work in my job as network /sysadmin / teaboy is MS Visio.
So Tonight I sat down and decided I wasnt going to bed until I found an OSS Visio equivalent for Linux, I found a semi good one already installed on my PC, although I know most of you balk at the mention of it, but OpenOffice.org's oodraw does a not too bad a job, the only thing is that it does not come with any fancy pictures of computers servers firewalls and routers etc for nice pretty network topology plans that I use, so you have to be pretty openmided and inventive with the "shapes" that are part of it. (if anyone knows how to get all the computer hardware images for oodraw, please reply!) However, I found a better tool that does a slightly better job on the visio-esqueness front, its koffice's "kivio", this looks very similar to Visio, as you expect by the similar sounding name, the symbols for computer hardware and network topology do come with it, although they are not as pretty as those that come with Viso (kivio symbols are either 2 dimensional or 3 dimensional wireframes), but hey it does the job. One thing I havet tried yet is opening a Visio document in an OSS solution, (thinking of OOo's abillity to open word docs and presentations) anyone got any experience of Visio / open source compatibility?? -- ***** Richard Forth "I used to be indecisive, but now, I''m not so sure!" *****
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