From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 8 21:30:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A6D14E46 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 21:30:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from psych ([203.41.44.149]) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA30998; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:31:56 +1100 Message-Id: <3.0.32.20000109163125.006a6fdc@idx.com.au> X-Sender: dannyh@idx.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 16:31:28 +1100 To: Chris England , Josh Welborn From: Danny Subject: Re: your mail Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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