From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 03:51:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A85FF16A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 03:51:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2149043D3F for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 03:51:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8692F6130; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:51:10 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92242-01; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:51:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 385DA6129; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:51:06 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41E89329.8080905@makeworld.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:51:05 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergei Gnezdov References: <1105761003.669.17.camel@owl2> In-Reply-To: <1105761003.669.17.camel@owl2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: Questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 03:51:11 -0000 Sergei Gnezdov wrote: > Hi, > > I need to consider if my friend can migrate from windows. Do you know > of a good user friendly alternatives (may be not as powerful)? I might > be able to answer most of the items, but I'd like to make sure that I > know about the options: > > Alternatives for: > > - MS Office XP. I don't think he has very complex documents. > - ACDSE 5.0, Photoshop. I am not convinced that he edits or creates > images. > - WinRAR and WinZIP > - WinAMP > - Virtual CD > - Some kind of CD Burner > - Some DVD Player > - AC3filter > - Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this) > Again, these can be found on the website - http://www.freebsd.org/applications.html... And again, have "your friend" research it on his own. -- Best regards, Chris 1) You can't win 2) You can't break even 3) You can't even quit the game