From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 17:37:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A172637B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:37:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from linux (1Cust189.tnt31.chi5.da.uu.net [63.28.47.189]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA08306 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:37:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:37:15 -0600 From: Gary To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Basic stuff Message-Id: <20001127193715.6bfb5061.medmanks@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.5 (GTK+ 1.2.8; Linux 2.2.16; i686) Organization: Hardly Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I am extremely new to FreeBSD, in fact, have not even purchased it yet. Background is in Linux, and schooling at the Univ on HP-UX, I feel just as comfortable with the console as with a GUI. I have been reading about FreeBSD and it has an outstanding reputation on many levels. My needs are small - workstation and house network, with maybe a web server later on. I am currently running SuSE. Questions, can I use many of my Linux based rpms in BSD? I guess you folks call them porting, or some such. Also, is there support for WinTV (bttv) in the GUI. I just joined the group, and am unsure how to run the Linux end of it, if need be. I would sincerely appreciate the basics, as to what can be ported over from Linux in terms of programs (although I must say, that on many occasions, I have seen builds for FreeBSD), and whether the newer GUIs are supported, etc. Any help is sincerely appreciated. I guess, I am trying to get a handle on FreeBSD, other than using it for an excellent web server, but rather more in the scope of everyday business use with WordPerfect, StarOffice, maybe MySQL, a mail and fax server, using a NIC card to network to a couple other computers, NFS, etc. I don't know if you have an something similar to SAMBA, or is it SAMBA? Thanks for your help. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: BREAKFAST.COM Halted - Cereal port not responding. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message