[rescue] Sun Kit Needed for EE Student Here

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 19:20, Don Y wrote:
> 
>> Unless the guy has deep pockets for Solaris based tools,
>> I'd suspect more bang for your buck on Wintel...  :-(
>> I keep my W98 machine around for things like CAD, PCB
>> layout, schematic capture, desktop publishing, etc.
> 
> I can't speak to CAD etc.  but StarOffice is pretty good and runs on
> Solaris.  Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. do too
> 
> And the Sun Studio C/C++ etc compilers are free too.

BRL-CAD is free.

Peace...  Sridhar