From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 29 16:37:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA28676 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:37:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (spain-34.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA28532 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:35:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA02469; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:34:40 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:34:40 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Snob Art Genre cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windows question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Tim Cline wrote: > > > Hi, I am wanting to switch to FreeBSD. The only thing holding me back is > > an uncertainty- can you get an emulator or something for FreeBSD to run > > Microsoft Windows applications? Also, can you run DOS apps, and DOS apps > > which use DPMI? If you CAN run Windows apps, can you run Windows apps > > which use NETWORKING, such as ICQ? Thanks! > > The development branch of FreeBSD has BSD/OS's doscmd DOS emulator. > There's also WINE, which can do some Win3.1 emulation, in the ports > collection. Wine can do _some_ Win32 stuff I think (provided you have some dlls from Win31), and it can do windows networking. There's also another freeware project (Willow something or other I think). > I recently got a copy of Caldera's WABI, which is also Win3.1 emulation, > and I'm going to try to run it under FreeBSD's Linux emulation, since it > is a Linux app. Wish me luck. It says it does not support Windows > networking. WABI, while much more polished, doesn't run under 24bpp modes (at least on Sol x86), and doesn't have any Win32 support whatsoever. - alex