Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 16:31:28 +1100 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: Chris England <cengland@obscurity.org>, Josh Welborn <freak_on_leash_14@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <3.0.32.20000109163125.006a6fdc@idx.com.au>
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You can run both FreeBsd and Windows together. With booteasy But What you might do is: - - Find out what software tools you need to do your job (on a Windows 95 machine) - Then research softwares that run on FreeBSd that does the same job on Windows 95 eg: - "Rational Rose" to do UML work -> Solution KUML, Dia "Photoshop 5" -> Solution KIllustator "Office97 -> Applixware FreeBSD - Slowly familarise yourself with the software till one day you don't need to Windows 95 to do your work - outcome: - stable platform, a learning experience At 21:13 8/01/00 -0800, Chris England wrote: >Hi there, > >FreeBSD and Windows can easily run on the same machine. The default boot >loader that FreeBSD uses (Easy Boot) can prompt you when you boot your >machine which operating systeme you would like to load. > >As far as running the same programs goes, yes and no. Some programs have >a FreeBSD port (Netscape, Word Perfect etc...) There are also Windows >emulators which enable you to use many of programs that you could normally >only run in Windows. > >I've been using FreeBSD for a few years and still have yet to run into a >major jam where I say to myself "I can do this in Windows but not >FreeBSD". > >Cheers, > > -Chris England > > >On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Josh Welborn wrote: > >> Can you have freebsd and windows on the same computer at the same time? >> How? >> Can you run the same programs that you have on windows on freebsd? >> ______________________________________________________ >> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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