From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 20:49:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDE3F37B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:49:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 39181 invoked by uid 100); 28 Nov 2000 04:49:53 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14883.14705.49792.538012@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:49:53 -0600 (CST) To: Gary Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Basic stuff In-Reply-To: <90207247@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary types: > Hello all, Hello Gary, Most of this stuff is in the hadnbook. You really need to read through that, but i'll give you short answers. > Questions, can I use many of my Linux based rpms in BSD? I guess you > folks call them porting, or some such. You can run many rpm's under Linux compatibility mode, but it's preferable to run native code if you can. Packages are the FreeBSD equivalent of rpm's. Ports are *much* more flexible, and are used to build packages. > Also, is there support for WinTV (bttv) in the GUI. The GUI is the same as Linux - XFree86 and associated window and desktop managers. There are applications for a number of TV cards in the ports. Fxtv supports the Brooktree cards. > 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? Everything you just named is in the ports. WordPerfect and StarOffice run under Linux compatibility, and the OpenOffice port (what they're calling the open source version of StarOffice) is being worked on so you'll have that native. Personally, I prefer Applixware Office as an office suite, and that's available native.