From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 21:59: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101D337B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eAS5www27864; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:58:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:58:58 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Gary Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Basic stuff Message-ID: <20001127215857.U8051@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001127193715.6bfb5061.medmanks@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001127193715.6bfb5061.medmanks@mindspring.com>; from medmanks@mindspring.com on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:37:15PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Gary [001127 17:37] wrote: > Hello all, > > 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. You can get all this stuff for FreeBSD, see: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ do a few searches and you'll see we have most of it, if not all the apps you want. best of luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message