From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 17: 8:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [200.52.207.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E76137B59B for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (ales.corp.megared.net.mx [200.52.193.2]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA48944; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:08:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <000b01c003f1$60912320$02c134c8@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Victoria Welch" , References: <3994853B.37DD9F48@oz.net> Subject: Re: Thanks! Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:08:00 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm not sure if I can use it for my original purpose, which was to > replace a RH linux 5.2 server yet. Easily :o) > mostly need a firewall I can configure easily. man ipfw > opening up ports with ipfwadm appears impossible and by now ipfwadm is > so old that no one seems to know how to make it work. man ipfw > Even if the FreeBSD won't masquerade I think I will still like it for > a desktop, a number of things I have seen so far make much more sense to > me :-). man natd > This ports thing is really nice, the idea of being able to cvsup it > puts the RPM stuff to shame :-). Have you seen the ports collection /usr/ports you cd to any program you like and type make install, and this fetches the necessary files from the internet, apply the needed patches, configure the program, compile it & install it, pretty amazing. > Also if anyone knows if the "linux compatibility" stuff will let me > run a couple of specific apps: WordPerfect Office 2000 and VMware? Yes, it will with FreeBSD 4.X Greetings... Ales To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message