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Subject:	Re: Yet another idea - Portable Ldraw system
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Thu, 15 Aug 2002 18:56:08 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Jeremy H. Sproat writes: > It occurs to me that a CD-bootable LDraw Linux distro would ROCK if > there were even a handful of decent LDraw tools available for Linux. Ouch! That really stings! All kidding aside, what exactly would comprise "a handful of decent LDraw tools". Besides a linux l3p executable, what's missing? I'd like some ideas to add to my "to do" list. > You wouldn't even need X loaded, just do all the screen code via > Allegro or SDL... That's an interesting thought. Is there some small memory footprint linux distribution you had in mind? Is allegro normally a shared library on linux? Don

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		Re: Yet another idea - Portable Ldraw system
(...) Sorry, didn't mean to be insulting there. :-, What Linux (and to some extent, Windows too) really needs is a semi-fast LEdit clone. I understand that one of the newer tools (LDGlite?) has an LEdit mode, but is kinda slow without hardware (...) (23 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: Yet another idea - Portable Ldraw system
Eduardo, I really like this idea. I have no experience whatsoever with making bootable CDs, but I'm sure someone else here does. Some questions... I assume that all file saving would happen to hard disk or floppy, unless a rewritable medium such as (...) (23 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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