On 08/05/11 14:35, yamazakir2 wrote:
Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA?
Both. Email is via Mozilla thunderbird, which seems to handle cross platform things well. I still don't have a player for .wmv video working though. Using Firefox with the latest flash plugin gives you youtube and vimeo movie formats, and sound is working more ways with less hangups and with less configuring than several years ago. Open office is working well enough to communicate with a few windows users without too much loss. If you needed to communicate quickly with a team of windows users, it might pay to use a vmware windows install on linux to access documents quickly without changing them any so they can be used for updates. I was liking a few KDE apps, like kword, but KDE got so invasive and took up so much disk space, I stopped using it. My linux install, with lots of engineering project data takes up close to 17GB, and I have stacks of cheap 20GB 80pin SCSI drives I back up to, so I don't want to let it expand any further for a couple of years... then maybe backups on servers will be the thing to do. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
