On Fri, 05 Feb 1999, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Well, this Wednesday, I finally plucked up courage and installed Linux onto
>my home PC. Nothing great for you guy's and gal's, but for a total newbie to
>anything other than MS Windows, it was a big step. Biggest problem's I had
>were trying to get my graphics card to work (Diamond Fire GL1000 Pro), and I
>could not get X Windows configure my mouse. I had to get a new server for my
>graphics card, and had to disable USB support in my PC Bios. All in all,
>quite a painless task, and now I have a totally new OS to play around with.
>
>Can anyone recommend some good book's for getting to grips with Linux?, and
>are there any C.A.D. Programs that run under Linux?
>
The three books that never leave my side are: "Running Linux", Matt Welch and
Lar Kaufman, O'Rielly and Associates; "UNIX Power Tools" by Jerry Peek, Tim
O'Reilly and Mike Loukides, O'Reilly and Associates and "Essential System
Administration" by AEleen Frisch, O'Reilly and Associates. If you're getting
the impression that O'Reilly and Associates make great books on UNIX and Linux,
you're paying attention. The latter two are more general UNIX info, but very
useful. Running Linux is the bible.
Well, I've heard Linus is a cad...oh! You mean computer aided design ;-)
Doing a search at Google on "CAD/CAM", I came up with this:
http://sal.kachinatech.com/E/2/index.shtml
Looks like most of the CAD stuff is still commercial, but I did notice one
effort for a GPL CAD program in there.
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