Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-04 Thread Gary Roach
| --| On Wednesday 2014-12-31 21:35, Cadman wrote: Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:35:30 From: Cadman cadg...@hotmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian right for my use? Greetings I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Patrick Bartek wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: You are asking on a Debian user list. Any answer other than yes here would lead me to seriously question the responses. Meanwhile I would expect that a Fedora list would respond for Fedora for example and the same for every other distribution's

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-02 Thread John L. Ries
:35, Cadman wrote: Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:35:30 From: Cadman cadg...@hotmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian right for my use? Greetings I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. I am a Draftsman working from home

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-02 Thread Mart van de Wege
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: Even though this is a Debian list and not an Ubuntu one I wouldn't run from Ubuntu to Debian because of this. I would expect their behavior to be identical. Yes you would. But that's assumption that can definitely bite you in the ass. Ubuntu has a bad

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/01/15 01:54 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Cadman wrote: I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. You are asking on a Debian user list. Any answer other than yes here would lead me to seriously question the responses. Meanwhile I would expect that a Fedora list

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 01 Jan 2015, Bob Proulx wrote: Cadman wrote: I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. You are asking on a Debian user list. Any answer other than yes here would lead me to seriously question the responses. Meanwhile I would expect that a Fedora

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bob Proulx wrote: Cadman wrote: I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. You are asking on a Debian user list. Any answer other than yes here would lead me to seriously question the responses. Meanwhile I would expect that a Fedora list would respond for Fedora

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Anil Duggirala
Ive invested quite some time looking for CAD software running natively on linux, there isnt much. There is one 3D CAD software running flawlessly on my Debian machine, its called Varicad. Correct me if Im wrong but Virtualbox will take away some of your graphics card power.. Besides that, Im also

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 01 January 2015 04:50:31 Anil Duggirala wrote: Ive invested quite some time looking for CAD software running natively on linux, there isnt much. There is one 3D CAD software running flawlessly on my Debian machine, its called Varicad. Correct me if Im Of those actually in the debian

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Cadman wrote: Greetings I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. Go here to read about all the distros: http://distrowatch.com/ I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Cadman wrote: I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. You are asking on a Debian user list. Any answer other than yes here would lead me to seriously question the responses. Meanwhile I would expect that a Fedora list would respond for Fedora for example and the

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Doug
On 01/02/2015 12:44 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 31/12/14 11:35 PM, Cadman wrote: Greetings I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software in Windows 7.

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 31/12/14 11:35 PM, Cadman wrote: Greetings I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software in Windows 7. My W7 OS is operating poorly and is

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, January 1, 2015 10:40:03 AM UTC+5:30, Cadman wrote: Greetings I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software in Windows 7. My W7 OS

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread David Christensen
On 12/31/2014 08:35 PM, Cadman wrote: I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software What 3D CAD software? in Windows 7. Which edition of Windows

Debian right for my use?

2014-12-31 Thread Cadman
Greetings I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software in Windows 7. My W7 OS is operating poorly and is expensive to replace. If Linux is right

Re: Debian right for my use?

2014-12-31 Thread Doug
On 12/31/2014 8:35 PM, Cadman wrote: Greetings I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software in Windows 7. My W7 OS is operating poorly and is