[Fsf-friends] http://www.qcad.org/

[Biju G C]

Screen shots look great!!! 
http://www.qcad.org/index.php3?body=screenshots&product=qcad
(Its long time since I use ACAD, so no other comments)

I wonder how many of our Engineering, Diploma, Polytechnique students tried this.

Cheers
Biju


--- "Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in> wrote:
--- 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


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