Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:40:26 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: "bmcwest@worldinter.net" <bmcwest@worldinter.net> Cc: unixguy@aol.com, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please add our new port to your page, people need to know about it. Message-ID: <704.971336426@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:18:18 CDT." <39E54999.A4A0393E@worldinter.net>
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This is a good development, but I have to wonder why the LinuxCAD web site doesn't mention this or list FreeBSD as an option for the demo download then? Just judging by your own publically available advertising materials, people aren't given any opportunity to find out about the FreeBSD version. :) - Jordan > > To whom it may concern. > > > Please update your list of the applications available for > > free BSD. Software Forge Inc. has ported and done the native > > build and quality assurance tests on FreeBSD of our award winning > LinuxCAD > > drafting software. > > LinuxCAD is a general purpose drafting program for Linux that > > plovides features of AutoCAD , Visio and Corel Draw in single combinaed > > program. > > LinuxCAD can be used in: > Mechanical Engineering drafting, > Architectural Drafting, > Software Development Flowcharting , > Entity Relationship Diagramming, > Network planning, > System Administration Diagramming and you can actually start > your sysadmin tasks from inside LinuxCAD, > PCB and schematic design ( easily integrated with routing > programs ), > Geographicsl Information Systems, > Any kind of drafting where integration with database is > important, > Floor plans for buildings and facilities, > 2D LOGGING OF SOFTWARE PROCESSES. > > Among our customers are more the three thousand individuals worldwide > and > companies such as Argonne National Laboratory, NASA, California Jet > Propulsion Laboratory, Motorola Inc., Boeing Inc. > > > I am sure you will do the readers of your web site a good service by > adding a link to our www.linuxcad.com web page. Our software is not > inferior to other packages you already linked to. > > > As far as FreeBSD is concerned we were very impressed with a quality > > and ease of installation of WalnutCreek FreeBSD Desktop Edition package > that > is based on KDE. Also the pthread library implementation looks firly > decent. > The system comes with gcc 2.95 which is particulary nice. The only > surprise was > seeming bug in FreeBSD tar implementation that was failing on us half > way on tar files longer > then 100Meg. If not that we would our master build and developemnt > environment to FreeBSD. > > > SIncerely Yours > > Robert Weaver > Software Forge Inc. > www.linuxcad.com > www.softwareforge.com > unixguy@aol.com > ( developers of the leading grphics and drafting programm for Linux, > FreeBSD, > Solaris, QNX ). > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message
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