Linux Deco Software

[seanrollins]

Greetings all,

Are there any linux users out there who could recommend a good Deco Software package to me? I love vplanner, but unfortunately a port hasn't been made to linux yet

 

[JessH]

Last I looked all I could find was vaporware. If you find anything let me know. You may be able to get vplanner running with wine(http://www.winehq.com)

~Jess

 

[Bob3]

I haven't tried it yet, but "Win4Lin" is supposed to allow windoze programs to be run in a Linux environment.
For more info, see: http://www.netraverse.com/

 

[seanrollins]

I'm sure WINE (Windows Emulator) would probably run it as well, but I was hoping to get away from an emulator. Thanks for the input though!

 

[hambleto]

Have you done a search on:
http://www.sourceforge.net/
or
http://www.freshmeat.net/

It was just an idea.

 

[Soggy]

seanrollins once bubbled...
I'm sure WINE (Windows Emulator) would probably run it as well, but I was hoping to get away from an emulator. Thanks for the input though!

WINE isn't an emulator. WINE Stands for

WINE
Is
Not an
Emulator

It is a port of the Win32 API to Linux and allows Windows programs to run "natively" on linux.

But....I understand what you mean...it's still a kludge.

My geekitude quotient just raised substantially didn't it?

 

[seanrollins]

I was trying to keep the conversation to terms that people understand Most people have no clue what an API is. Me, I'm a software engineering student (third year), so I'm quite aware :>

Since you're familiar with linux, and are obviously a diver, do you know of good deco software package?

 

[Soggy]

seanrollins once bubbled...
Since you're familiar with linux, and are obviously a diver, do you know of good deco software package?

Sorry, I forgot to post my link:

Check out http://www.linuxdiving.org/

 

[JessH]

Soggy once bubbled...

WINE isn't an emulator. WINE Stands for

WINE
Is
Not an
Emulator

I was actually contemplating whether I should point this out when I saw your post I actually did some coding for WINE back in the day. Looks to me like we have enough programmers here to make our own software.

~Jess

 

[seanrollins]

JesseH,

I like that idea. What we need is a math major who can code the algorithms for us. I'm alright with math, but I don't know if I could implement the decompression algorithms. I'd certainly be willing to contribute to writing some code though