Re: Why Linux on a Laptop?

[Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat@ees2.oulu.fi>]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Josef Dalcolmo wrote:

>Apart from Word, and Powerpoint which I use because my business colleagues use
>it and I often need to edit documents cooperatively,

So install your colleagues Linux ;)

>there are very few and limited Electrical Engineering tools available from
>Linux. I know geda, oregano, chipmunk, ikarus verilog, and there are some

You might want to check out Electric, www.staticfreesoft.com, if you
haven't already, it's pretty great.

>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.

Too bad. Let's hope the sitation gets better, it looks very possible, at
least.