[mdlug-newbie] Hello LUGgers!

[Aaron Kulkis]

Stuart wrote:
> Hi Brandon,
> 
> I too am new to Linux and LUG.  I have used Macs for the past 10  
> years, I occasionally used a box running open Suse, and only learned  
> the true level of retardation of windows two years ago when I started  
> college.  There was a short time I used a NEXT Station color, which  
> was the aunix based predecesor to Mac OS X, but sold that machine to  
> pay some bills.  Out for delivery today is my Asus EEE PC 100, with  
> its own custom xandros.  I don't want to put XP on it if I can't find  
> a decent CAD program available for a Linux distro.  Thanks for  
> listening to me ramble, I'm sure I will have "TONS" of questions in  
> time.
> 
> Stuart Grant
> Mt. Clemens
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Brandon Fotiu <bfotiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Brandon and I got fed up with Windows a few months ago  
>> and installed Linux Mint 5 Elyssa.  So far it's been a good  
>> experience overall and most of my hardware is supported.  I'm  
>> looking for more information on how to get everything I can out of  
>> Linux and I've been slowly learning the way around my system and the  
>> terminal.  My next project for is to try and get MythTV up and  
>> running on a spare box but from what I've read it's really an  
>> advanced user type of program.  Anyway, I'm joining this list in the  
>> hope that it keeps me from switching back so please be patient if I  
>> ask a really simple questions.  Thanks for reading this and I look  
>> forward to participating in the Michigan LUG community.

A lot of Unix-land CAD programs have been ported to Linux.
It's usually no more difficult (and oftentimes, much less
difficult) to port a Unix app to Linux than to port from one 
of the proprietary Unix versions to another (HP-UX, IRIX,
AIX, Solaris).