We had a "meta-discussion" on this over at NTLUG (North Texas LUG) awhile back. I talked about BrisCAD's _official_ support for running IntelliCAD under WINE: http://ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/Week-of-Mon-20040628/021557.html For more on other, _real_world_ engineering going on under Linux, and the AutoDesk-Microsoft "cohorts" behind how AutoCAD was _removed_ from _every_ platform from Windows, read: http://ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/Week-of-Mon-20040628/021553.html -- Bryan <rant=on> P.S. One thing I dispise is Linux advocates spreading unintentional FUD. _Know_ what exists and you _can_ offer _real_ solutions. I was supporting Linux on the desktop well before IPOs and what-not. ;-> Microsoft isn't the problem. It's the consumer that assumes there is nothing else. Far too many Linux advocates are ready to assume there is nothing. Or believe things about Microsoft that just aren't true (like how much Microsoft itself does _not_ use its own products, or how much they outsource/contract). Then when I talk about stuff from 100% _first_hand_ experience, they say I'm a conspiracy theorist. Just like the Dell Linux offerings back in 2000. I just shake my head. When an engineer could only buy the slowest CPU with the least amount of memory, tell me Microsoft wasn't behind that. Intel trumped Microsoft at Dell because the semiconductor industry needed 100,000+ Linux PCs/year, but Microsoft had Dell only certify the least usable configurations to engineers. No wonder they didn't sell! </rant> -- Linux Enthusiasts call me anti-Linux. Windows Enthusisats call me anti-Microsoft. They both must be correct because I have over a decade of experience with both in mission critical environments, resulting in a bigotry dedicated to mitigating risk and focusing on technologies ... not products or vendors -------------------------------------------------- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx
