Just thought about trying it under VMware but never found the time for it. But I too would be interested in experiences of the one(s) who tried.
Or even better: Altium/Protel follow Kat's advice, not every Linux application has to be free, you can get money for it ... and you will extend your customers base! Since we are considering a principal change from NT4 to Linux for all our workstations the first five or so licences would be moved. Regards, Emanuel Kathy Quinlan wrote: > > When Protel (or what ever they call themselves today) pestered me the other > day about upgrading my 98SE license (probably cause I downloaded a demo of > 99se and bugged them with printer problems :o) I told them straight " Make a > version to run on FreeBSD / Linux and you will not only get me and all the > other users to buy, but you will also pick up all the Mac users as OsX is > just FreeBSD re compiled for a Motorola chipset and heavily tweaked, but it > still runs all the FreeBSD apps" the reply was " I will pass it on to R&D, > and get back to you" 4 weeks on NO REPLY so I guess I am staying on 98, it > does schematics as well as 99SE IMHO and I can manually route PCB's just as > well so there is no need to upgrade. > > Has any of the *nix users here tried protel under VMware ?? as I have been > told it is about the best bet for running Protel, but do not have a copy and > it is not freeware or GPL AFAIK > > Regards, > > Kat. > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | K.A.Q. Electronics > \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | Software and Electronic Engineering > X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Perth Western Australia > / \ | Ph +61 419 923 731 > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "robi artwork" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 5:29 PM > Subject: [PEDA] MS versus Linux > > > Talking about Operating Systems !!!!! > > > > To my knowledge - > > Linux is a much-much faster and a lot-lot more stable Operating System as > > any of Microsofts Op's will ever be. > > > > Simply said - it's a much better Platform. > > > > Talking to Protel about a year ago, why "Protel-Tools" aren't available > to > > operate under Linux-Operation System. > > The answer I was give - " We don't have that many customers requesting > it - > > should more customer asking for this, we may consider it". > > > > Well well well - > > Maybe the time has come to ask Altium to get "Protel running under > Linux". > > > > I specifically posted this mail, to this forum, to attract not only your > > but also Altiums, Protels attention and thoughts. > > > > Robi > > > > > > > > Robi Artwork - PCB Design Bureau > > PO-Box 199, Lot 33 Jamaica Drive > > Deception Bay Q4508 Australia > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > C/o Robi Bittler > > Ph: 07-3203 0634 > > Fx: 07-3203 3958 - only on request > > > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * > > * To leave this list visit: > > * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html > > * > > * Contact the list manager: > > * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * > > * Forum Guidelines Rules: > > * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html > > * > > * Browse or Search previous postings: > > * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% MPL AG www.mpl.ch Emanuel Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager R&D Phone: +41 (0)56 483 34 34 Taefernstrasse 20 Fax: +41 (0)56 493 30 20 CH-5405 Daettwil %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
