Over the last 18 months or so I’ve been moving slowly and steadily towards using exclusively open source software.  I’ve replaced Windows with Ubuntu, abandoned Internet Explorer for Firefox, Microsoft Outlook for Thunderbird, etcetera.  However there have been a few proprietary programs that have been exceptionally difficult to locate equivalents for in the open source realm – and Visio is one of them.
I’m hoping the discovery I just uncovered will resolve that long-standing hole in my suite of programs.  Known as Dia, the program:
“…is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows …