From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 8:21: 5 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 1935437B41F for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:20:36 -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 g2RGKX831040; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:20:34 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.9a) with ESMTP id 2002032717201944:6764 ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:20:19 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2RGZ2424398; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:35:02 +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 17:35:02 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: "Necol NV, Sint Maarten" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Beginner's question Message-ID: <20020327163502.GI389@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: "Necol NV, Sint Maarten" , freebsd-questions References: <001501c1d58e$87e6b280$5426fea9@MilkywayNV.com> <20020327132121.GB389@roman.mobil.cz> <004f01c1d5a8$ca832960$5426fea9@MilkywayNV.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <004f01c1d5a8$ca832960$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 05:20:19 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.9a |January 7, 2002) at 03/27/2002 05:20:26 PM, Serialize complete at 03/27/2002 05:20:26 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: "Roman Neuhauser" > 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" > To: "Necol NV, Sint Maarten" > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:21 AM > Subject: Re: Beginner's question > > > > 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 > > -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 5:30PM up 3 days, 1:16, 14 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.05, 0.01 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message