From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 03:12:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D885106566C for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:12:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A3E8FC26 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:12:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 9736 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2008 22:12:25 -0500 Received: from syd1.bde.com.au (HELO localhost) (203.14.171.231) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 24 Mar 2008 22:12:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:12:18 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome To: User Questions Message-ID: <20080325141218.50a9079b@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <18407.40858.402470.923938@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <000001c88a5c$82d01b40$887051c0$@com> <59945.203.127.42.92.1205999937.squirrel@www.superhero.nl> <47E21DD1.9000806@skoberne.net> <9136.203.127.42.92.1206002915.squirrel@www.superhero.nl> <47E2336A.5050207@skoberne.net> <31594.203.127.42.92.1206008195.squirrel@www.superhero.nl> <20080324231642.307812fc@meijome.net> <18407.40858.402470.923938@jerusalem.litteratus.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:12:25 -0000 On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:33:30 -0400 Robert Huff wrote: > Respectfully, the list of things WINE will not - by its own > documentation - run and has no expectation of running in the > foreseeable future is immense. Seasonal example for Americans: > TurboTax. sure. and neither does our Australian Tax office software. which I run on a win32 box or a win32 VM under qemu. but wine has come a huge way from when I started to track it, back in '98 or so. anyway, choice is the key word here , i think :) cheers, B _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "A tree as big around as you can reach starts with a small seed; a thousand-mile journey starts with one step." Lao-tse I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.