Open Source Tools
1. Open Office- Calc withers when faced with serious engineering work when compared to Excel 2000- but, then again, I have the impression that newer versions of Excel are pretty wimpy when compared to 2000 as well. Writer can get really bogged down when you have a lot of images- and I STILL haven't figured out how to anchor images so they don't jump all over the place when editing.
2. Evolution- who needs an e-mail clinet these days?
3. GIMP- excellent product, but then I am not in to serious publishing. It meets my needs without hogging system resources.
4. Scrbus- I probably should be using this for my documentation projects, just too lazy to move up.
5. Gnucash- been using Gnucash since my Windows days, when an upgrade broke my commercial accounting package. I was able to import all my critical data from the old package. Excellent package.
What is needed? A really good CAD package.
