From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 11:09:39 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 8153216A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:09:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from orchid.homeunix.org (avj45.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.27.43.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B09343D3F for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:09:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org) Received: from [192.168.1.66] (blackacidevil.orchid.homeunix.org [192.168.1.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by orchid.homeunix.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0FB9UMH053380 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:09:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org) Message-ID: <41E8F9EA.2030900@orchid.homeunix.org> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:09:30 +0100 From: Karol Kwiatkowski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050114) 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> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/663/Tue Jan 11 23:44:48 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on orchid.homeunix.org X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:09:39 -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: Hello Sergei, Here's short list what I use / would use: > Alternatives for: > > - MS Office XP. I don't think he has very complex documents. OpenOffice > - ACDSE 5.0, Photoshop. I am not convinced that he edits or creates > images. GIMP (to create/modify images) > - WinRAR and WinZIP There are several command line tools in /usr/ports/archivers. As for GUI: If you're using KDE there's ARK in kdeutils. Gnome should have something similar. > - WinAMP XMMS > - Virtual CD don't know this software > - Some kind of CD Burner burncd with mkisofs works great if you don't mind command line. K3b (/usr/ports/sysutils/k3b) is great if you like GUI . > - Some DVD Player > - AC3filter mplayer (all you need is in there already) > - Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this) I cannot comment on this but mplayer is supposed to do that. Regards, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski