<div dir="ltr">As far as finding alternatives to various programs (i.e. "what is an alternative to Windows xyz"), I always go to <a href="http://alternativeto.net/">http://alternativeto.net/</a><div><br></div><div>You can specify that you want Linux only results in your searches.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 at 15:05 Dan Hergott - newsletter email <<a href="mailto:dhuwnews@gmail.com">dhuwnews@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Bricscad is an excellent Autodesk command compatible Linux CAD
alternative to Autodesk. It is also available for windows and MAC.<br>
Bricscad is NOT free but the maker space maybe able to obtain free
yearly educational licenses.<br>
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The contact person in Canada for Bricsys is Luc Michel
<a href="mailto:luc.michel@bricsys.ca" target="_blank"><luc.michel@bricsys.ca></a> you can contact him directly on this.<br>
I / we use the educational version of Bricscad software here in
UofW on all 3 platforms.</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br>
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<div>On 15-10-07 02:46 PM, Jotham Apaloo
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<div>Hi All,<br>
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I moved up north a couple months ago. there's not many tech
things going on here, but there are a couple of
organizations around. One is the local makerspace,
yukonstruct. They have a lot of competency in the area of
mechanical devices, and there are a couple computing people
but they are MAC/WIndows users with little time on their
hands for administration.<br>
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<div>They need to set up several computers this month. Their
current system consists of 7 workstations in a main
computer lab, and 3 or 4 other workstations connected to
3d printing machine, CNC router, laser cutter. I don't
know the exact models right now. Some of the computers are
refurbs for which they get windows licenses for $10, but a
few new ones require paying for a full windows license.
They will also have to pay for deep freeze licenses.<br>
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I am doing (i.e. emailing you lot) some research to see
about putting linux on all/some of their computers. I think
it would be simpler to maintain, less prone to malware, less
expensive, and a better fit with the mission and values of
the makerspace. There is already some resistance to
introducing new things (which is really unfortunate for a
makerspace), but if I can give some specs and pricing for a
nice setup of the machines and network, they may be willing
to adopt Linux.<br>
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I'm looking for a distro suggestion and package suggestions
for:<br>
<ul>
<li><b>nonpersistent user sessions/data (comparable to
deep freeze)</b></li>
<ul>
<li>maybe since permissions and resource is easy to
limit on linux, users could have persistent data<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li><b>software equivalents for </b></li>
<ul>
<li>corel draw suite (inkscape?)</li>
<li>sketchup, </li>
<li>aspire, </li>
<li>autodesk suite, (blender?, +?)</li>
<li>preform (looks like no alternative)</li>
</ul>
<li><b>best way to incorporate a windows station, if
necessary</b></li>
<ul>
<li>WINE?</li>
<li>virtual machines?</li>
<li>a windows server on the network and wine/vm on all
other machines as clients?</li>
</ul>
<li><b>any other related suggestions</b><br>
</li>
</ul>
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<div>it would be a bonus if each of the general workstations
could send jobs to the machines connected to manufacturing
devices. This could happen on a longer time frame but open
to thoughts now.<br>
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<div>Thanks,<br>
</div>
<div>Jotham<br>
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<a href="mailto:jothamapaloo@gmail.com" target="_blank">jothamapaloo@gmail.com</a><br>
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