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Date:      Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:48:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Stephen Knight <sknight@ilink.nis.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Questions . . .
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407144732.27025F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01bd6263$8e002360$LocalHost@stephen>

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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Stephen Knight wrote:

> My friend recommended that I tried out FreeBSD. I am used to working in
> a windows environment and I was just wondering if my applications that I
> have on Windows 95 would still be able to work on X Windows which I am
> told I would get with FreeBSD. 

No, but you can generally find X equivalents.

> Applications that I am talking about are WinZip, Cheyenne BitWare, FTP,
> word processing, E-mail, etc. 

You might look into kde.

> PS : Do you know where I would be able to obtain my own copy of FreeBSD.
> I live in South Africa. 

Check http://www.freebsd.org, there is a mirror in your area I think.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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