Re: OT: open source visio - dia alternate

2x

Wine works fine!

2012/3/4 Brian Dennis <bdennis_at_ine.com>

> Just use Wine or Crossover (http://www.codeweavers.com/) and you'll never
> have to fire up a VM. The only Microsoft app that I had problems with was
> Outlook but I'm using Thunderbird anyways.
>
> I'm going to mess around tonight and see if I can get my vmware
> infrastructure client to work in Wine. Seems some people have had success
> getting it to run.
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> On 03/04/2012 02:36 PM, Radioactive Frog wrote:
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>> Thanks Keller and Calin.
>> Saw most online versions. Will keep looking some nice ones. Yeah windows
>> VM
>> is also an option but i am too lazy to fire if up.
>> The only time i fire up VM is when i want ti connect to esxi/vcenter.
>> Agreed on format as most people are using Visio. Information in a
>> proprietary format that others can't read is useless.
>>
>> On Sunday, March 4, 2012, Calin Chiorean wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm also working on different OS platforms and for quick drawings I use
>>> lucidchart.com. It has the Cisco stencils and the paid version allow you
>>> to export also to Visio format. OK, you're still related to Visio, but
>>> what can you do... For free you can save in pdf, png and jpeg.
>>> It's not really an alternative as you are bound to Internet connection.
>>>
>>> Anyway I get a strange feeling whenever I go to a meeting and start a
>>> different software that everybody is used yo (like microsoft word vs
>>> openoffice). Somehow like everybody is judging and asking..."now what's
>>> wrong with this guy?" :)
>>>
>>> The same vith this Visio. You can do great drawings in another software,
>>> but if nobody can open them and most important maybe re-edit those
>>> papers is useless.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Calin C.
>>>
>>> On 3/4/12 3:38 AM, Radioactive Frog wrote:
>>>
>>>> Folks,
>>>> I have been using opensource Dia for a few years.
>>>> It's not bad software but I was wondering if anybody have used any other
>>>> software that on *nix desktop.
>>>>
>>>> OmniGrffle is nice to see but it's not for *nix platfarm.
>>>> yED is not good and there are tonns of online versions that are not an
>>>> option.
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for desktop /offline diagraming software.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
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