Two days from the previous Bricscad For Linux's planned expiry date, Bricsys provides today a new development release.

What's new: Debian/Ubuntu (.deb) and Fedora/Red Hat (.rpm) installers are now available for easier installation. A generic .tgz archive is also available for other Linux distros. Note that the .deb package is for 32-bit operating systems only, I wasn't able to install it on my desktop PC which is on Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit.

The DWG 2010 format is now supported.

One thing I noticed:  the installer is named BricscadClassic-V10.4.2-1-en_US, which I think means it supports 2D only. Small disappointment for me, since I'm interested in ACIS modeling on the Linux version.

For more details and the download link, click here.