From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 10:58:45 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 E73A916A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:58:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9318343D41 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:58:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ian@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Cpldj-000D0Q-0D for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:58:43 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:58:41 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <1105761003.669.17.camel@owl2> In-Reply-To: <1105761003.669.17.camel@owl2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501151058.42031.ian@codepad.net> 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 10:58:46 -0000 On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:50, 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: This is what I use, it all came from the ports collection and installed without fuss. > - MS Office XP. I don't think he has very complex documents. The office collection that comes with KDE > - ACDSE 5.0, Photoshop. I am not convinced that he edits or creates > images. > - WinRAR and WinZIP > - WinAMP Xmms (only under FeeSBIE), it even looks and feels like WinAMP > - Virtual CD > - Some kind of CD Burner I use burncd and mkisofs from the command line. Can't be bothered with getting a GUI one at the moment > - Some DVD Player Ogle, tho I need to set OGLE_OSS_RESET_BUG environment variable, cos there's something up with the sound drivers for my machine (FreeBSD 5.3R and onboard sound on a A7V600-X motherboard). Now that's worked around Ogle is extreamly good, it does DVD menus as well. > - AC3filter > - Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this) -- /Xian "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." Albert Einstein