Le mer 03/07/2002 à 11:39, Andreas Mohr a écrit :
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:33:46AM +0300, P. Christeas wrote:
My view is that we should focus on professional apps, such as CAD, some multimedia etc. There is professionals that won't switch to Linux until some unique apps they use can run under Linux. Games are an issue, too.
Very true. IMHO AutoCAD is *very* important, as it's considered to be a leading CAD package, with no UNIX version, ever.
Was a leading CAD package. It's still vastly used, but (in my experience) mostly to get access to old drawings. Newer stuff gets designed on SolidWorks, ProE, Catia, Mechanical Desktop and a couple others which do real 3D.
However, we couldn't make the rare apps run, until the API is mature, such that the most common ones will run, too. So, don't worry if Outlook or Money doesn't run, worry about Matlab (say..).
Matlab is the worst example that you could possibly have chosen. You are aware of the fact that there is a Linux version ?
Right. But are all toolboxes ported? The symbolic toolbox uses a Maple lib (not only m-files), and I'm not sure if it's been ported.
Vincent