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Visio is a great tool for creating diagrams, flowcharts, prototyping, etc. But it is Windows-only and is not free. Are there any graphical tools for Linux that can do many of these same tasks well?

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I would put graphviz as a serious answer, but I fear that I may get down-votes for it. – kzh Feb 25 '11 at 13:01
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graphviz is the choice if you want to "generate" diagrams, I mean automatically. But if you want to draw interactively, then I think dia is great. – Barun Feb 25 '11 at 13:38
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Right, I am really looking for an interactive tool. – Justin Ethier Feb 25 '11 at 14:26
See also vector images in linux. – Gilles Feb 25 '11 at 23:22

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There's Dia.. Not nearly as many features as Visio, but does diagrams: http://live.gnome.org/Dia

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Looks promising, thanks for the link! – Justin Ethier Feb 25 '11 at 14:27
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How about Pencil?

http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Home.aspx

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Interesting... but this is only for prototyping? – Justin Ethier Mar 1 '11 at 15:32
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Kivio, as the name kinda implies, is KDE's competitor to Visio. It is a part of the KOffice suite.

Note: KOffice, as well as some of its applications were recently renamed. KOffice is now called Calligra Suite and Kivio is called Calligra Flow. However, there has not yet been a release since the rename.

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Looks promising, I see a screenshot over here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligra_Flow – Justin Ethier Feb 25 '11 at 14:30
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diagramly works on Linux.

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Cool, so this is basically an online Visio tool... – Justin Ethier Mar 1 '11 at 15:31
Yes, but it's free and will remain free. There's no login, you can store files locally and doesn't pester you to sign up to anything, because there's nothing to sign up to. – David Mar 1 '11 at 19:49
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WireframeSketcher is a cross-platform tool that can be used for prototyping.

Sample WireframeSketcher mockup

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You can find all the open source alternatives to visio here http://www.osalt.com/visio and any other equivalent for a commercial software

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For UML and DB Diagrams, you could use UMLet.

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I used "DIA" and "UMBRELLO", both fine, but not like Visio.

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I found THIS link, you should find all the alternatives there. good luck!

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I'd like to throw in yED which works on linux too, and has some nice features. It isn't GPL'd though,.

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I would use Yed, its personal favorite. yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html – Nikhil Mulley Nov 30 '11 at 11:15

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