From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 10:14:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F9537B401 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:14:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF77543EAF for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:14:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gASIBGrv044498; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:11:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id gASIBFgk044495; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:11:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:11:15 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: Nelis Lamprecht Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Desktop OS with support for Windows In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021128155329.013e16e8@192.96.48.11> Message-ID: <20021128130908.Y44447-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.9 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,NO_EXPERIENCE,NO_MX_FOR_FROM,AWL version=2.31 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I want to use FreeBSD as my desktop OS with Gnome but I still need to do > Windows luser support. I have installed Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable > and now I'm trying to figure out what is the best solution. Does the > Vmware port still work and or should I just install Samba and which > Office Software would be best suited to use that is compatible with MS > Word and Exel ? I know of Openoffice, Gnomeoffice and Staroffice but > have had no experience using either. Samba is only for Windows "Network Neighborhood" support... meaning that it allows FreeBSD to show up on a windows network. As far as I know if you have the vmware software the port should still work, but I don't know if it can download the vmware stuff from anywhere. If you get vmware working you can just use ms office inside the virtual machine... I'm not sure which of the office packages you listed works the best... but I've had pretty good experience with koffice being able to open most .doc files. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message