When Protel (or what ever they call themselves today) pestered me the other day about upgrading my 98SE license (probably cause I downloaded a demo of 99se and bugged them with printer problems :o) I told them straight " Make a version to run on FreeBSD / Linux and you will not only get me and all the other users to buy, but you will also pick up all the Mac users as OsX is just FreeBSD re compiled for a Motorola chipset and heavily tweaked, but it still runs all the FreeBSD apps" the reply was " I will pass it on to R&D, and get back to you" 4 weeks on NO REPLY so I guess I am staying on 98, it does schematics as well as 99SE IMHO and I can manually route PCB's just as well so there is no need to upgrade.
Has any of the *nix users here tried protel under VMware ?? as I have been told it is about the best bet for running Protel, but do not have a copy and it is not freeware or GPL AFAIK Regards, Kat. ____________________________________________________________________________ /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | K.A.Q. Electronics \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | Software and Electronic Engineering X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Perth Western Australia / \ | Ph +61 419 923 731 ____________________________________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "robi artwork" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 5:29 PM Subject: [PEDA] MS versus Linux > Talking about Operating Systems !!!!! > > To my knowledge - > Linux is a much-much faster and a lot-lot more stable Operating System as > any of Microsofts Op's will ever be. > > Simply said - it's a much better Platform. > > Talking to Protel about a year ago, why "Protel-Tools" aren't available to > operate under Linux-Operation System. > The answer I was give - " We don't have that many customers requesting it - > should more customer asking for this, we may consider it". > > Well well well - > Maybe the time has come to ask Altium to get "Protel running under Linux". > > I specifically posted this mail, to this forum, to attract not only your > but also Altiums, Protels attention and thoughts. > > Robi > > > > Robi Artwork - PCB Design Bureau > PO-Box 199, Lot 33 Jamaica Drive > Deception Bay Q4508 Australia > ------------------------------------------------------ > C/o Robi Bittler > Ph: 07-3203 0634 > Fx: 07-3203 3958 - only on request > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > * > * To leave this list visit: > * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html > * > * Contact the list manager: > * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > * > * Forum Guidelines Rules: > * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html > * > * Browse or Search previous postings: > * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
