I am wondering if any of you have tried running surveying software such as Traverse-PC or similar under ubuntu with wine emulation? My use is for civil engineering, mainly road and tunnel layout work at reconnaissance and feasibility stage.
> I am wondering if any of you have tried running surveying software such as Traverse-PC or similar under ubuntu with wine emulation? My use is for civil engineering, mainly road and tunnel layout work at reconnaissance and feasibility stage.
Boy I've often toyed with the idea of using Linux (Slackware). I just haven't had time to learn to do all the script programs. Let us know how it turns out.
Traverse-PC loads and runs, but won't display text. There's other problems that I, as a beginner with TPC and Wine, don't know how to handle. The tooltips don't display entirely.
Winetricks may help, or some other dlls that TPC wants to see.
Hi True Corner,
Sure, I will post my experience (I'm not particularly rushed, so be patient).
Regarding Linux, the user interface has improved a lot in the last years. I have used unix in some form or another for a long (really long) time, and I personally find lots of advantages to using the command line and scripts. But I will admit that there is a learning curve and that many people today have no particular need to use computers this way.
I suggest that you make a live USB stick with e.g. ubuntu ( http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download). You can then boot your computer from the USB stick and try out Linux as much as you like. You will be surprised how easy the installation is and how easy it is to use Linux.
Hi Tyler Parsons,
Sounds like it could be a font problem. Thanks a lot for posting your experience.
> Hi True Corner,
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> Sure, I will post my experience (I'm not particularly rushed, so be patient).
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> Regarding Linux, the user interface has improved a lot in the last years. I have used unix in some form or another for a long (really long) time, and I personally find lots of advantages to using the command line and scripts. But I will admit that there is a learning curve and that many people today have no particular need to use computers this way.
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> I suggest that you make a live USB stick with e.g. ubuntu ( http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download). You can then boot your computer from the USB stick and try out Linux as much as you like. You will be surprised how easy the installation is and how easy it is to use Linux.
Shoot I have about a dozen box sets of Slackware over the years. I used to have a slackware/windows box but I never seem to have time to program the scripts to make the programs work for printers and the like.
I believe HP computers used to be Unix boxes before they switched over to MS-Dos sometime in the 1980's.
