This episode we will take Dia for a test drive and discover the ease of use of quick and clear diagram building. We will also hit Gnu characters and shoot Snort pigs in Wormux. All GNU GPL software, for Unix, Linux, BSD, OSX and Microsoft Windows.
I. graphical tools : Dia
Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license.
Dia is inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio’, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG, and can print diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages).
www.gnome.org/projects/dia
II. the little extra : Wormux
Have the mascots of your favorite free softwares battle in the Wormux arena. Using dynamite, grenades, baseball bat and others bazookas,… exterminate your opponent in a 2D toon style scenery and a funny environment.
Each player (2 minimum, on the same PC) controls the team of his choice (penguin, gnu, firefox, wilber,…) and must destroy his adversary using more or less casual weapons.
www.wormux.org
music from Victor Demarko on music.podshow.com
theme from Brand New Sin on music.podshow.com
beer on this episode : St Bernardus Prior 8 
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