From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 19:57:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704DB37BB47 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from gimpy (hutch-547.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.186]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id VAA18366; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:57:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <000f01bfeae3$bb69c490$ba7009ce@gimpy> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Chris Federico" , References: <396A8842.A034CDCC@natca.net> Subject: Re: compatability Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:57:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Federico" To: Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 9:36 PM Subject: compatability > I stumbled across your website and was intrigued by your > OS. However, one thing I couldn't find was any mention of > compatability with software designed for other OS's. > Basically, I'm hoping I can rid myself of Win98 and still > run all of my win98 software. Can I? > No. You would have to run Unix software. Now there are a lot of programs that have been ported to unix, like Netscape, Doom, Quake, and so forth, but you would have to reinstall them all. And some programs, such as Microsoft Outlook Express are simply not available for FreeBSD. (As they say about White Castle Hamburgers, "There's just nothing else like it.") I guess what I am trying to say is "upgrading" to Freebsd is not like upgrading from win95 to win98 or anything like that. Josh Josh > Thanks > Chris Federico > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message