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Re:FreeCAD 0.17 “Roland” released by progval on Monday April 09, 2018 @12:10PM (#16794261)
> Linux users are advised to get FreeCAD from their distribution's repository

Wow, it has been a long time since I last saw a big piece of software recommending distribution repositories instead of a custom repo, a standalone package, or a curl|bash.

Re:FreeCAD 0.17 “Roland” released by opencl on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:30PM (#16795045)
They do have a standalone AppImage. Which somehow managed to hang my entire GNOME session the first time I ran it, but worked after logging out and back in.