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On Wednesday 03 September 2003 12:01 pm, Doug Love wrote:
> A friend recommends your OS over Linux for my home system.
> I've taken a 2 day Linux Admin course, and know just about that much.
> I don't see a quick answer on your webpages to my questions.
> Where can I find


>     A Database similar to Access

You will not find this yet.  The KDE project is working on an 
application called Kexi, that is similar to Access in that it is a 
desktop database system (using a very small, lightweight SQL backend).  
There is a similar commercial application from thekompany.com, but I 
have no idea if it would run on FreeBSD, even under Linux compat.

>     Spreadsheets

Gnumeric.  OpenOffice has one as does KOffice.

>     Pkzip
>

There are more compression tools than you can shake a stick at :)

-- 
Todd Stephens