[lug] Visio for Linux? Was: stupid MSDN Q

[D. Stimits]

John Karns wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, D. Stimits said:
> 
> > Even with apic disabled, the i840 will not run vmware at all.
> 
> In a similar vein, I recently installed a copy of Visio 5.0 I had
> purchased about 2 or 3 years ago.  After installing it, W98 would lock up
> my machine hard if I tried booting W98 via a VM - and takes Linux out too.
> Made me glad that I had Reiserfs for the 11G Linux partition; I hate to
> think how long the e2fsck would have taken, especially since I tried
> rebooting it 3 or 4 times while trying various things to see if I could
> get it to work, all wih the same result.

I have a couple of 36 gig drives, one is mainly XFS filesystem
(journaling), the other ext2. They aren't completely one partition, but
a huge proportion is used as root filesystem. The XFS one will repair in
less than one second. The ext2 takes "a while".

> 
> Even after booting W98 natively, the machine was very sluggish - the mouse
> had a very large latency and felt as if I was running a VNC over a 56kbps
> connection.  Then I remembered having a similar problem with Visio under
> W95 when I had installed it at the time of purchase.  I don't know what
> they did (they must have replaced some key MSW video components), but it
> sure messes things up.  Too bad, because I sure could use a nice tool to
> do flow charts and network diagrams as a document aid for a project.

Try Dia. It has both Linux and Win versions. I believe they are working
on visio export/import, I don't know what state it is in...possibly it
is available only on a cvs snapshot.

> 
> Luckily after uninstalling via the Control Panel, VMWare / W98 was
> restored to working order; but the latency remains if W98 is booted
> natively.
> 
> Anyone have a recommendation for a good flow chart app that's native to
> Linux?

Dia. Install a copy on both Linux and Win.

D. Stimits, Stimits at idcomm.com

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> John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net
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