[Fsf-friends] Re: [Fsf-india] GNOME and KDE desktops for MS-Windows users

[Nagarjuna G.]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:41:11AM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote:
> Biju G C wrote:
> 
> > I wish, I could start using GNU/Linux, but plenty other reason make me stay in MS-Win. Previously
> > I had dual boot PC, but found that is not a good solution.
> >
> > Finally I found Redhat's Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com), an open source UNIX emulation layer on MS
> > Windows. And Cygwin/XFree86 (http://cygwin.com/xfree/) as its XWin.
> 
> Sounds good technically but what is the advantage if you have o keep Windows with all it's problems.
> In my personal opinion, we should switch over to GNU/Linux where it is possible and live with windows
> 
> where there is no other option.
> We have gotten rid of MSOffice, Explorer etc. but still living with some CAD software that has no
> GNU/Linux
> alternatives.

Did you try qcad?  Any reviews?

Nagarjuna