Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:35:02 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: "Necol NV, Sint Maarten" <necol@sintmaarten.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Beginner's question Message-ID: <20020327163502.GI389@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <004f01c1d5a8$ca832960$5426fea9@MilkywayNV.com> References: <001501c1d58e$87e6b280$5426fea9@MilkywayNV.com> <20020327132121.GB389@roman.mobil.cz> <004f01c1d5a8$ca832960$5426fea9@MilkywayNV.com>
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> From: "Necol NV, Sint Maarten" <necol@sintmaarten.net>
> To: "Roman Neuhauser" <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
> Subject: Re: Beginner's question
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:12:47 -0400
don't remove the list address, please.
> Thank you Roman, that was useful. Does it support a peer-to-peer
> network working with 10baseT? Does it require a proper server?
what is a "proper server"?
if you need "file sharing" between un*x machines, use NFS (Network
File System). if you have heterogenous environment (FreeBSD and
Windows machines), use Samba.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roman Neuhauser" <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
> To: "Necol NV, Sint Maarten" <necol@sintmaarten.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Beginner's question
>
>
> > From: "Necol NV, Sint Maarten" <necol@sintmaarten.net>
> > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > 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.
> > <smile>
> > 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
>
>
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FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE
5:30PM up 3 days, 1:16, 14 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.05, 0.01
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