Is Linux for you?

摘要

The fact that well-respected companies like IBM, Compaq and Dell now offer Linux as standard on their computers, and that large software companies like Oracle and Corel are producing applications for Linux means that this OS has to be taken seriously. Linux is certainly worthy of attention by anyone using the PC professionally as a tool to do his/her job. One purpose of this review is to demonstrate to engineers not only that can you perform CAD, but also all the other tasks that might be incidental to an engineer's job, such as report writing, spread-sheets, databases etc.