[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > What about simply running linux with no vindoz? If I need vindoz > (which I don't think so), I run citrix (client) and I connect to a > vindoz NT (citrix server). But I have no ideea what I can run there > and I could not run on linux. Maybe msie?
Good for you if you don't know what anyone could need Windows for! Apart from Word, and Powerpoint which I use because my business colleagues use it and I often need to edit documents cooperatively, there are very few and limited Electrical Engineering tools available from Linux. I know geda, oregano, chipmunk, ikarus verilog, and there are some commercial ones, but nothing that is as easy to use as Proteus or Orcad, and nothing that covers the whole range of tasks I need. In particular, when compiling to FPGAs, most of the time one needs to use the fitters the manufacturers deliver, and they run on Windows (or on Solaris as the exception). The manufacturers give the fitters often away, because they want to make money with chips, not software. However the cost of this software is enormous, and therefore the manufacturers have little interest to make versions for Linux too - at least as long as they feel they have to provide them for Windows. I could imagine it would cost less to develop for Linux only. I imagine in other engineering disciplines except software engineering it is a similar story. - Josef
