Hi,

Those of you in the Engineering community might be interested in this.
IMHO, this is one of the first big engineering tools moved to Linux.
And how about the irony? Doing design verification on a chip worth a
a quarter mil, with application software worth 100k, on a $50 machine
running a free operation system!!

  -- Ron

<this is cut from a Mentor Graphics newsletter>
* Calibre now on Linux!

Calibre is now available on the Linux operating system.  
This functionality will be extremely important to those 
customers wanting to run Calibre on x86 platforms.   
Running Calibre MT on Linux provides customers a 
low-cost alternative for running MT Calibre jobs.  For 
more information, refer to the release notes or respond 
to this email if you have questions about running 
Calibre on Linux.
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