You should try using: "Dia Diagram Editor"
Available as a debian package and in yum, currently version 0.96 It supports UML so you shouldn't have too much difficulty as a cross-over to linux from visio 2003/2005. Just remember to export as UML and not a visio document and rebuild from there-on. Hope that helps J. On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 00:40 +0000, Richard Forth wrote: > 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!" > > ***** > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
