anyone who didn't want to worry about loosing their work.
I don't want a remote, expensive and not necessarily friendly stranger
to hold my work to ransom, just because he (claims he) owns the
software to make it. That's a short definition of vulnerability.
It's not where I want my work of days, weeks, *years* to be.
So I disagree with Mr. Dim Wittie, up this thread. I'm interested to
hear recommendations from people who have used it for serious work, of
what Linux CAD software they feel good about.
Cheers -- Martha Adams
Perhaps you need to consider CAD apps that support open data formats and
standards rather than just the OS.
One candidate, LinuxCAD, supports the AutoCAD .dwg and .dxf formats.
But, if independance from proprietary formats is important to you, just
saving as a proprietary .dwg won't buy you much.
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f u cn rd ths u r usng unx
Did they go legit? A few years ago, their main method of marketing was
spamming news groups and sending email spam, they made questionable
claims about their software, and they attacked people who reviewed the
software and pointed out flaws.
Unless they've reformed, and have been clean for a few years, it's
probably a good idea to stay away from them.
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--Tim Smith
> ray wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 08:06:40 -0400, Black Dragon wrote:
>
>>> Adam wrote:
>
>>>>> Who the hell would want to run CAD software on Linsux crapware, anyway?
>
>>>> anyone who didn't want to worry about loosing their work.
>
>>> You mean "losing".
>
>>> So what are you saying anyway? That Linux somehow magically prevents CAD
>>> applications from crashing from, say, a bug in the software, and losing
>>> any work that was done since the last save?
>
>> Well, at least the OS doesn't crash!
>
> No operating system is immune from crashes.
I have been running Linux on various machines, usually at least three at
any given time, for about five years. I have NEVER seen a linux system
crash, short of a hardware failure. I have occasionally seen X lock up for
a while, but that's it.
> I've seen Linux crash several times. Each time it was brought down by X.
> X is an application. I thought good operating systems couldn't be
> brought down by bad applications? Now FreeBSD, I've never seen it crash,
> but that doesn't mean it can't happen.
I've not seen X crash Linux, though I have seen it lock up for a time.
> I've seen Linux crash several times. Each time it was brought down by X.
> X is an application. I thought good operating systems couldn't be
> brought down by bad applications? Now FreeBSD, I've never seen it crash,
> but that doesn't mean it can't happen.
I'm not sure what you mean by "crashed". I've had that happen (most
recently by running glxgears). The symptoms are no GUI response and no
NIC response, both of which X covers.
It's as good as a crash, as the machine is unusable until you reset it.
Linux is generally better and faster than Windows, but it has a
singularity or two that can really screw things up.
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Tux rox!
All I have to do to crash my Gentoo box is enable acpi in the kernel and
run the nVidia drivers. As soon as X starts 'she locks up like a
mother'... I suppose it isn't a crash in the sense of a kernel panic,
but you have to reboot the machine and make sure X doesn't start if you
want to actually use it.
I also had a kernel panic a few months ago killing a process... I'm not
sure what that was about.
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Tom Shelton
Is it just me or does AutoCAD .DWG == Applicon Graphics System .DWG
files? :-)
We need more three-letter extensions! :-)
Personally, I would hope LinuxCAD does it right and looks for magic
numbers in the file, then converts it to a standard format for later
saving. I'm not sure what that format would be, admittedly -- SVG
isn't even close to sophisticated enough for CAD work (it might work
for physical geometries but that's about it), and I have no idea what
happened after EDIF attempted to standardize electronic CAD format.
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It's still legal to go .sigless.
> Adam wrote:
>
>>> Who the hell would want to run CAD software on Linsux crapware, anyway?
>
>> anyone who didn't want to worry about loosing their work.
>