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As exciting as eating 3-day-old/room-temp mayonnaise? Hehehe.... Somebody left some out here at work, and one co-worker said, "Anybody eat that and they will have a REAL exciting night..."

Actually, I saw Metisse work in 2006 Nov on a card i "rented" (bought/returned) from CompUSA, and in my old Gateway Select, 800 MHZ CPU/256 MB RAM, ~64 MB (I think it was 64 MB) PCI card, got Metisse... I showed Metisse and Compiz to the Comcast technician who was inspecting my cable (i think I was having probs getting TV out of the cable). Needless to say, he was bedazzled by KDE/Compiz/Metisse/Linux...

I think before I buy Mandriva 2008 I need to get another, bigger laptop drive. I have a 160 GB and an 80 GB, and PCLOS is on my 160 and it's nearly full, what with having the recovery version of vista in a partition, and all my Linux and other files in another partition.

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Oh, boys & Girls, if you're looking for Linux-friendly CAD that is quite like AutoCAD, see:

http://www.bricscad.com/en_INTL/bricscad/features.jsp

The Linux version, as can be expected, lacks some of the windows version's features, but.... Well, I still like Punch! ViaCAD. And BricsCAD is out of my budget limits. Still, it's nice to see Linux-supporting companies out there....

I don't disagree with Dell/Shuttleworth's decision to not provide WINE by default.
But WINE is not just for end users. Developer's also use it as a bridge to help port Windows applications to Linux.
For example I have an AutoCAD replacement http://www.bricscad.com/download/B4L_certified.jsp installed in my Fedora box.
You don't need to know how to configure WINE at all for it to work.

I am an architect with a five person practice. I have been searching for a decent non-autodesk CAD program that runs on linux for some time. I have finally found one. Check out Bricscad. http://www.bricscad.com/ It is an Autocad clone. Even has the 3-D stuff. Reasonably priced. If you are familiar with Autocad you will be up and running in an hour. It is a Linux port from there windows product and uses wine. We were a Beta test site for them It will read and write all autocad files going back to version 2.2. Worth the price just for that. Kurt.

Does anyone out there have experience using Open Source software for CAD that has a relatively 'normal' GUI/interface?

It's not open-source but it's cheap: Try BricsCAD http://www.bricscad.com/ or IntelliCAD.
These are AutoCAD clones at one-twentieth the price and relatively similar GUI.

If I could run AutoCAD on Linux, I would use it at work (for something other than a server).

There is an AutoCAD clone for Linux. Here's a quote from my Linux user group list. (I haven't used it, so YMMV)...

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:41:07 +0100
From: "BricsCad BackOffice" email-deleted
Subject: BricsCAD goes Linux

BricsCad, the market leader in low cost DWG CAD software, today announced the beta release of BricsCad for Linux. The product is based on the IntelliCAD kernel.

BricCad for Linux is an "almost clone" of AutoCAD(r). BricsCad uses the exact same DWG drawing format as AutoCAD(r). Drawings made by BricsCad can be read by AutoCAD(r) and the other way round.

BricsCad for Linux addresses the untapped group of individual and corporate professional CAD users in the LINUX community allowing them to use their operating system of choice without being locked out from the professional Engineering world and the DWG standard.

The full press release can be found on their website(s):

English version
French version
German version

Interested beta-testers are invited to contact BricsCad at linux@bricscad.com

If I could run AutoCAD on Linux, I would use it at work (for something other than a server).

There is an AutoCAD clone for Linux. Here's a quote from my Linux user group list. (I haven't used it, so YMMV)...

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:41:07 +0100
From: "BricsCad BackOffice" email-deleted
Subject: BricsCAD goes Linux

BricsCad, the market leader in low cost DWG CAD software, today announced the beta release of BricsCad for Linux. The product is based on the IntelliCAD kernel.

BricCad for Linux is an "almost clone" of AutoCAD(r). BricsCad uses the exact same DWG drawing format as AutoCAD(r). Drawings made by BricsCad can be read by AutoCAD(r) and the other way round.

BricsCad for Linux addresses the untapped group of individual and corporate professional CAD users in the LINUX community allowing them to use their operating system of choice without being locked out from the professional Engineering world and the DWG standard.

The full press release can be found on their website(s):

English version
French version
German version

Interested beta-testers are invited to contact BricsCad at linux@bricscad.com

If I could run AutoCAD on Linux, I would use it at work (for something other than a server).

There is an AutoCAD clone for Linux. Here's a quote from my Linux user group list. (I haven't used it, so YMMV)...

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:41:07 +0100
From: "BricsCad BackOffice" email-deleted
Subject: BricsCAD goes Linux

BricsCad, the market leader in low cost DWG CAD software, today announced the beta release of BricsCad for Linux. The product is based on the IntelliCAD kernel.

BricCad for Linux is an "almost clone" of AutoCAD(r). BricsCad uses the exact same DWG drawing format as AutoCAD(r). Drawings made by BricsCad can be read by AutoCAD(r) and the other way round.

BricsCad for Linux addresses the untapped group of individual and corporate professional CAD users in the LINUX community allowing them to use their operating system of choice without being locked out from the professional Engineering world and the DWG standard.

The full press release can be found on their website(s):

English version
French version
German version

Interested beta-testers are invited to contact BricsCad at linux@bricscad.com

If I could run AutoCAD on Linux, I would use it at work (for something other than a server).

There is an AutoCAD clone for Linux. Here's a quote from my Linux user group list. (I haven't used it, so YMMV)...

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:41:07 +0100
From: "BricsCad BackOffice" email-deleted
Subject: BricsCAD goes Linux

BricsCad, the market leader in low cost DWG CAD software, today announced the beta release of BricsCad for Linux. The product is based on the IntelliCAD kernel.

BricCad for Linux is an "almost clone" of AutoCAD(r). BricsCad uses the exact same DWG drawing format as AutoCAD(r). Drawings made by BricsCad can be read by AutoCAD(r) and the other way round.

BricsCad for Linux addresses the untapped group of individual and corporate professional CAD users in the LINUX community allowing them to use their operating system of choice without being locked out from the professional Engineering world and the DWG standard.

The full press release can be found on their website(s):

English version
French version
German version

Interested beta-testers are invited to contact BricsCad at linux@bricscad.com