Bill wrote:

Can you run SketchUp on it?

Yes.

As chance would have it I installed Sketchup 8 (free version) just
yesterday on my 64 bit laptop running Ubuntu 12.10. I can't say
that I put it through all its paces as of yet but I've yet to find
anything that is broken with it.

You do have to run it under Wine (a windows compatibility layer), so
performance probably takes a hit, but its OK for my simple needs.

A tiny bit of Linux knowledge is needed (how to do things in a terminal
window, for example) to install it.

For what it's worth, I was also successful in getting emachineshop to run
as well as Google Earth.



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Frank Stutzman