Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:14:36 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Sergei Gnezdov <sgnezdov@pobox.com> Cc: Questions FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend Message-ID: <20050115151436.36df56ad@vixen42.local.lan> In-Reply-To: <1105761003.669.17.camel@owl2> References: <1105761003.669.17.camel@owl2>
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:50:03 -0800 Sergei Gnezdov <sgnezdov@pobox.com> 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. Texmacs, OpenOffice, KOffice, or AbiWord should all work nicely. > - ACDSE 5.0, Photoshop. I am not convinced that he edits or creates > images. GIMP. > - WinRAR and WinZIP Several choices under ports/archivers. > - WinAMP XMMS or one of the many one in the ports. > - Virtual CD > - Some kind of CD Burner I suggest a combo of burncd, mkisofs, and mc. It is not really intuitive or whatever at first, but it works rather nice after reading the related mans. If you want something with a more traditional GUI, there are a few in the ports. > - Some DVD Player > - AC3filter Both MPlayer and Xine should handle AC3 with out problems. > - Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this) MPlayer is great for this and there are a few DVD ripping programs in the portstree. Now if there only a nice front end to the win32 port. ^_^ http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
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