From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 5: 7:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [194.228.200.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692DB37B404 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 05:07:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g2RD6w815130; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:06:59 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.9a) with ESMTP id 2002032714064473:6541 ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:06:44 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2RDLLm22741; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:21:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:21:21 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: "Necol NV, Sint Maarten" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginner's question Message-ID: <20020327132121.GB389@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: "Necol NV, Sint Maarten" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001501c1d58e$87e6b280$5426fea9@MilkywayNV.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <001501c1d58e$87e6b280$5426fea9@MilkywayNV.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.9a |January 7, 2002) at 03/27/2002 02:06:44 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.9a |January 7, 2002) at 03/27/2002 02:06:52 PM, Serialize complete at 03/27/2002 02:06:52 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 > From: "Necol NV, Sint Maarten" > To: > Subject: Beginner's question > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:53:50 -0400 > > Hello, > Will this OS run programs designed to run on windows 98? I am > interested in Adobe photo, Quickbooks pro, Turbocad that kind of > stuff. > Please send the answer in English and not too much computer speak. > > thanks. > Lyn Short answer: no. Long answer: there are programs that make it possible to run an operating system in another operating system (vmware comes to mind) (so you can run Word in Windows in vmware in FreeBSD), and there are programs that emulate Windows, so that you can run Windows applications in Un*x operating systems like FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux. One such emulator is called Wine. Now, I haven't used either, but two guys in this office use Win2000 in vmware in Slackware 8.0, and Win98 in vmware in RedHat 6.2 (Slackware and RedHat are Linux distributions) quite successfully. I don't know anything about installing/running vmware in FreeBSD. -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 2:12PM up 2 days, 21:57, 14 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.05, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message