From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 20:50: 8 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 E523337BB75 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:49:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e6B3ngx20968; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:49:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:49:42 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Josh Paetzel Cc: Chris Federico , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compatability Message-ID: <20000710204942.L25571@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <396A8842.A034CDCC@natca.net> <000f01bfeae3$bb69c490$ba7009ce@gimpy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000f01bfeae3$bb69c490$ba7009ce@gimpy>; from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 09:57:18PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Josh Paetzel [000710 19:58] wrote: > > > I stumbled across your website and was intrigued by your > > OS. However, one thing I couldn't find was any mention of > > compatability with software designed for other OS's. > > Basically, I'm hoping I can rid myself of Win98 and still > > run all of my win98 software. Can I? > > > > No. You would have to run Unix software. Now there are a lot of programs > that have been ported to unix, like Netscape, Doom, Quake, and so forth, but > you would have to reinstall them all. And some programs, such as Microsoft > Outlook Express are simply not available for FreeBSD. (As they say about > White Castle Hamburgers, "There's just nothing else like it.") I guess what > I am trying to say is "upgrading" to Freebsd is not like upgrading from > win95 to win98 or anything like that. You're correct for the most part, however there exists a Windows emulator called Wine that may be able to emulate certain Windows applications: http://www.winehq.com/ Your best bet is to perform a backup of your windows system and try for a dual boot system at first, if you get Wine up and running you can access your Windows/Dos disk and try to run applications in Wine. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message