There are drawing, CAD and CAM programs. I'm not sure what kinds of libraries MS Visio offers so I'm not sure what your friend may need for Ubuntu or his class at school. If it is straight ahead drawing with symbol libraries, for network diagrams for instance, try Dia. Dia is Gnome ready. And I don't mean Defense Intelligence Agency. http://projects.gnome.org/dia/ Tom ** This list is PUBLICLY archived. ** PLEASE don't post personal or sensitive information unless you wish for it to be in the public domain. To post to the list send email to frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The archive is available at //www.freelists.org/archives/frgeek-michiana/ You may unsubscribe or change your list settings by going to the list website at //www.freelists.org/webpage/frgeek-michiana