Quartus II 7.2 web edition - Linux or not?

Kees Bakker <spam@altium.nl> wrote:
> Tommy Thorn wrote:
> >...
> > Personally I'd care more about having a version that worked under Wine/
> > CrossOver than a native Linux port.

> Wine??? There are very, very few applications that actually work under Wine.
> And of those, the majority is of no interest for Linux users, because there
> are perfect alternatives which are native Linux.

> Wine is - that's my experience anyway - no environment to run Win32 
> applications
> on a Linux PC.

If Altera would talk to Codeweaver(and pay a small amount of what they pay
to Mainsoft to Codewaever) , wine could become be a perfect alternative with
minimal effort...

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Kees Bakker <spam@altium.nl> writes:
> Wine??? There are very, very few applications that actually work under Wine.
> And of those, the majority is of no interest for Linux users, because there
> are perfect alternatives which are native Linux.

Linear Technology LTSpice (also known as SwitcherCAD) works well with Wine,
and LT even supports it!

Xilinx used to support ISE on Wine, before they had a native Linux version.

 > Wine??? There are very, very few applications that actually work
under Wine.
> And of those, the majority is of no interest for Linux users, because there
> are perfect alternatives which are native Linux.
What.... are you smokin'
You can run freaking World of Warcraft and PCAD in the ubuntu Wine's
And while their are "alternatives" to those it doesn't really make a
difference if you specifically want to play Warcraft or you company
uses PCAD.

NZG