i bet you can get Autocad to work on linux, Dl wine, which is a windows emulator and try it

alhabi,

Have been running the Windows versions AutoCad 14 and 2000 in Linux for over 2 years with Wine. Even better now with the versions of Wine shipped with Fedora Core 4 and Mandriva 2006. I have used linux for a number of years (since Redhat 5/6 on a 486) but only began mirgrating my business to Linux fully in 2004. Now I am 99.44% Linux, rarely boot windows, and am loving it. My work is more Civil Engineering, Land Surveying and GIS consulting using GRASS (amazing software) for my GIS needs.

In order to work with clients having a later version of Autocad such as 2004-2006 I did purchase ($350 US) a CAD program called Bricscad that gives me complete compatability with AutoCad. Version 6 of this software has been released for Linux and Windows, uses (reads and writes) all the latest AutoCad file formats. Much more reasonably priced than AutoCad.

I also use Linux programs such as GIMP, Blender, PovRay Modeler, Inventor and many others. Not having to use MS Windows with all its problems is worth any minor problems I had UPGRADING to Linux. As was said before, give it a try, you will like it.

As far as software I would like to see ported to Linux, Most of the software I needed and wanted has already been ported to Linux or the equivalent Linux software is better.

Dear friends thanks a lot for your replies.
I will take your advices and start with a backup computer to test things around.
as far as 3DS MAX and maya software goes, i wonder is there anything like them that can be used in linux?

Nice one! there should probably be an easier to understand, nontechnical doc file in addition to the detailed one... as for printer drivers... Mandriva 2006 Free detected my printer beautifully... no downloading of drivers... on WinXP have to use the instll cd... so we r getting somewhere... oh and its a Lexmark Z25... Lexmark are not famous for their linux drivers either...

By the go back i hope you mean a system restore... that would be great considering the amount of tinkering you inevitably do on your machine... the system restore would be awesome even if it occupied some space...

getting into the nitty gritty of the computer is part of the charm of using linux but sometimes you just want to get stuff to work... and work fast... (eg when your trying to get a new linux convert ) ie. i dont want to spend ages on installing and configuring... now it has gotten a lot better but there are sometimes when its too much of a hassle to figure out the problem... eg. (I use Mandriva 2006 Free) the master volume control doesnt work.. i have to use the PCM control... tried but failed to fix this... once i updated my system from Mandriva ftp site and Kaffeine got broken... but i switched to Totem... works well.. but still couldnt fix Kaffeine even after complete removal and reinstall of kaffeine... and many other progs mostly peer2peer progs that i have downloaded also from Mandiva sites and PLF that are installed ok but need configuring... which i couldnt be bothered to 'figure out'.

I love linux but there's still tons of rough edges to sort out... anyways... its better than WinXP...

later...

lib.

alhabi

I know Version 6 and 7 of Maya have Linux releases that run on SUSE Linux 9.3 or Red Hat Enterprise. Check out the Autodesk website (They bought Alias that originally released Maya). The Alias web site just points you to AutoDesk now. I can not post the links because of this 5 posts rule..check out some sites like ..highend3d(dot)com or linuxartist(dot)org. I am using Blender more and more and like it very much...it can import and export DXFs...so that makes it CAD compatiable...I still use CAD to create a lot of shapes or for modeling buildings or terrain related shapes. Open Inventor is also available for Linux.

I think we need more media player competition, if something like itunes can be imported that had be great

I would like to see a dialer that actually works.

I haven't been able to get any linux distro to connect yet.

@hab186: use google. AFAIK there are some programs for that purpose.

Regards,
Daniel

I'd like to see Macromedia's studio MX ported to linux

1.MacroMedia Studio MX
2.Somthing Like VB but for Windows
3.nothing Linux is Complete for me

I don't think if this is being said before in the thread but a major lack in software for Linux and FOSS in general are drivers

I suggest you get Mac OS X if you want quality in an OS (...some modules of this OS are FOSS). You can try Bender (3D), Quanta (html and css), and there's also another 3D apps ...I think Maya but cann't remember, also there's GIMP (image editing), and Sodipodi (vectors). But honestly you cann't replace or find alternatives to all the graphic-related software.

Wow aldimeneira, I never thought about that. But yes, I completely agree with you, if hardware companies would actually write Linux drivers for their software my entire Linux experience would be a HECK of a lot easier.

I think just providing enough technical information to make it easier and faster for the FOSS community to respond. Part of the free software concept is to make things work the way we want. It would be nice if HW manufacturers assisted in a way that would not impinge on their secrets.

jer

I would like Macromedia Dreamweaver ported to linux, as well as Adobe Photoshop. It would definitely help.

I would like a version of Mozilla Firefox that uses the native QT look and feel. So the buttons on webpages and selection circles would be really nice like they look on Konqueror and Opera. As well as a Linux version of Macromedia Shockwave, and Windows Media Player, as well as Quicktime to view online video content from websites. I know mplayer works well with Firefox, and KMPlayer is very nice with Konqueror, but I would like to have dedicated players. But I am really sure that the first two are really possible, I know the last two will be when hell freezes over. Funny cause I would think that KDE would make some concessions before allowing Apple to use KHTML on Safari.