Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:25:03 +0200 From: albi <albi@scii.nl> To: Rhys Sage <rhys_sage@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Several questions Message-ID: <444504CF.8090301@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060418150537.6619.qmail@web52701.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060418150537.6619.qmail@web52701.mail.yahoo.com>
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Rhys Sage wrote: > 1. Will FreeBSD run on my Compaq Presario V2570NR yes, probably > (Athlon 64, 512mb DDR, WIFI and several interesting > desktop buttons by Compaq)? the desktop buttons have to be done after the install by yourself, and perhaps the onboard wifi-card is not supported > 2. Does FreeBSD come with a GUI or is it compatible > with the Athene GUI? FreeBSD comes with Xorg > 3. Is there any software for FreeBSD that will read > Canon CR2 files from my Canon XT? > > 4. Is it possible to run Mac OSX software on FreeBSD? yes and no, there's qemu which you can try, YMMV http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU > My questions are because I want to transfer from > Windows XP and to maintain my OpenOffice, > PhotoProcessing and internet capabilities, while not > using a virus magnet like Windows. (also keeps my 8 > year old from trying to load CDs of games behind my back. i would suggest to start with a dual-boot, re-partitioning can easily be done with gparted : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php gparted is an open-source equivalent to the commercial closed-source partition-magic -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import
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