From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 14 09:39:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01773 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:39:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Raccoon.ChipChat.com (Raccoon.ChipChat.com [206.2.228.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01767 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrc@ChipChat.com) Received: from ChipChat.com (MRC-Tiger.ChipChat.com [206.2.228.141]) by Raccoon.ChipChat.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA02866; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 16:39:09 GMT (envelope-from mrc@ChipChat.com) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:39:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Cawthon To: Russ Kolacek cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows Apps. In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980914113125.00908760@EMail.Psu.Edu> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: mrc@Raccoon.ChipChat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Will most MS Windows 95 apps run on FreeBSD? No. FreeBSD has a whole different universe of applications. HOW TO SEE WHAT FREE-BSD APPS AVAILABLE: Look at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ Then click on "Applications" in the yellow menu-bar near the top. The next page (http://freeBSD.org/ports/index.html) describes something called "FreeBSD Ports" which are applications made specifically to run on FreeBSD. Scroll down that page, and you will see many links for categories, such as: Archivers Astro Audio . . . etc. . . X11-wm Click on each category to see the names of these 'ports' and descriptions of what they do. About 99% of these 'ports' are available for free, including source code. YOUR NEXT STEP... I recommend that you buy and read the book: "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey. ISBN 1-57176-227-2. It is available from bookstores and also on the net from "http://www.cdrom.com". From your question it seems that you are completely new to FreeBSD. So was I a few months ago. I found Mr Lehey's book very valuable. Good luck! Marty Cawthon ChipChat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message