David Brodbeck wrote: > > Well, first let me state that I'm not talking about ease of installation > here. On a workstation OS, I don't care if individual users can install > drivers or new software. (In fact, it makes my life easier if they can't. > ;) ) And if anything Linux would be less hardware dependent than NT -- I > could create a kernel with drivers for all our hardware and it'd figure out > the individual machines on its own. But there are a few areas that are > lacking. > > - Accounting software. Ever seen any for Linux?
I just did a quick search on google and found about 5-10 different alternatives, some free and some commercial. > - CAD software. The company I work for utterly relies on AutoCAD. There's > no version of It really depends on what kind of cad work you want to do, but I found several alternatives for mechanical enginering, architectural cad, IC cad and so on.. > AutoCAD for Linux. There's a LinuxCAD program that claims to be similar > to AutoCAD, but > have you seen the screen shots? They're imitating the DOS version, not > the Windows > versions that came out in the last few years. There aren't even any > toolbars. The > CAD group would mutiny if I tried to make them use that. > - Good photo editing software. GIMP can do nearly everything Photoshop can, > granted, but the user interface is an utter train wreck. That is of course a matter of opinion, I myself don't like the UI of photoshop very much. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
