From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 21:15:32 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 C6E0B16A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:15:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from S2.cableone.net (smtp2.cableone.net [24.116.0.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7613143D45 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:15:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.local.lan (unverified [24.119.123.89]) by S2.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S2) with ESMTP id 7477091 for multiple; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 14:37:20 -0700 Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:14:36 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox To: Sergei Gnezdov Message-ID: <20050115151436.36df56ad@vixen42.local.lan> In-Reply-To: <1105761003.669.17.camel@owl2> References: <1105761003.669.17.camel@owl2> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.13 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 2, First 39, in=64, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.119.123.89 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net 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 21:15:32 -0000 On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:50:03 -0800 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. 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