From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 14:14:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32CF337B40E for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 14:14:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [12.162.34.13] (dnsmom.beanstalk.net [12.162.34.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57D143FB1 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 14:14:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from PTFD9100@beanstalk.net) Received: from chiefnb (unverified [12.162.36.206]) by (Vircom SMTPRS 4.2.181) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 May 2003 17:07:52 -0400 From: "Michael W. Holdeman" Organization: PTFD To: "clayton rollins" Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 17:14:25 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305051714.25747.PTFD9100@beanstalk.net> cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another reason to like FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 21:14:50 -0000 Hi Clayton, Thanks, I was unable to get Wine ot run my apps, I realize they are making progress and I should retry soon. Win4lin is at www.netraverse.com Mike On Monday 05 May 2003 04:38 pm, clayton rollins wrote: > >On 5 May 2003 15:38:07 "Michael W. Holdeman" > > > >I had FreeBSD 4.5 running on my laptop and dearly loved it. Wish I could > > go back! Problem was there was not enough interest from BSD users to get > > Netraverse to port Win4Lin to BSD. > >Any progress on this? I have 2 legacy Windoze apps I must run, and Win4Lin > >is > >the only way to run them ! > > > >Mike > > (snipped) > > Hi Mike, > > I have never heard of win4lin, but you might find wine just as useful. > > Here's a snippet from the pkg-descr: (in case you don't have bsd up and > running) > "Wine is a Microsoft Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000 emulator running under Unix > on i386 (and compatible) CPUs. > > It is still alpha quality, but is definitely making progress. Most > applications already work, more or less, including even a couple of games." > > The port directory is emulators/wine. > > Hope it works for your app.s, > Peace, > Clayton > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.20 lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 4.0 www.netraverse.com