Welcome to my little corner of Courira.ca! This is an introduction to my blog, a mission statement of sorts.

My brother, Courira.ca's co-administrator and chief architect, introduced me to GNU/Linux a few years ago. I was quickly taken by the open source movement. For two years now, two operation systems have shared my PC's hard drives: the ubiquitous Windows XP, and Ubuntu.

CAD (Computer Aided Design) isn't just a tool I need to master in my field of work, it's also a personal interest of mine. Indeed, I sometimes describe myself as a "CAD enthusiast". So my quest for CAD software running on Linux was inevitable, said software to be preferably open source, with hope that it may replace, at least for my personal use, the tools I work with on Windows.

I'm obviously not the only one on this quest: Google's search engine reports, for the search "CAD Linux", an impressive 5,280,000 of results in English; extending the search to any language bumps it up to 8,660,000! Even though these numbers have no real meaning, it is still rather surprising, to say the least, considering that Linux reportedly gets no more than 1% of the desktop operating system market...

Since the start of my ongoing quest, I've realized that few resources list existing software and projects; and quite a good number of them are outdated.

It is with that in mind that I figured a blog dedicated to CAD on Linux may be useful. I will then use this blog to share my experiences and findings. The primary language will be French, but I plan on trying to translate most of my posts. I hope that you will enjoy them!