From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 21 17:09:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA12930 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 17:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (root@seoul-204.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA12924 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 17:09:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA08257; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 15:54:34 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 15:54:34 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: John Kenagy cc: LAg_mAn , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can i run some windows95 programs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, John Kenagy wrote: > No, but you can keep both operating systems on your disk and boot > into the one you want. FreeBSD can mount the partition where windoze > lives (some restrictions). Actually, yes, grab wine (it's in the ports collection), it's in the alpha stage, but it works fairly well, and even runs WinWord. > You shouldn't need to buy anything what with the ports and packages > collection. The only thing you will miss out on are GPFs, the > funny little pictures, and manuals that don't tell you anything. Actually, there are still some ambiguious man pages out there ;-) - alex