Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:36:04 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Roofscum614@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question? Message-ID: <20070311013604.GA42165@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <ca7.b43d30c.3323739e@aol.com> References: <ca7.b43d30c.3323739e@aol.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:36:14PM -0500, Roofscum614@aol.com wrote: > hi i am doing a project for school: > > find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer > without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your > search with the word "free"). Find out what the software does, what > applications it supports (e.g., will it run Microsoft Office), how much it > costs. You have found a good one. You need to go to the FreeBSD web site www.freebsd.org and do a lot of reading, both the handbook and the FAQ as well as other sites that are pointed to. FreeBSD is indeen free to download and use. You would need to burn your own installation CD (disk1). Optionally, there are a couple of companies who make up a package of pre-burned CDs and a printed handbook and sell them for a nominal price - and most donate a small part of that to the FreeBSD foundation.. FreeBSD has more than 10,000 software utilities that have been ported to run on it. Check our ports on the FreeBSD web site. It does not run Microsoft software directly, but many of those ports are worthy substitutes for the MSU software. For example, there is a package called 'Openoffice' that does most of the stuff MS Office can do. It's word processor is called swriter and can read and/or create files in MS-Word format as well as some others. It has a spread sheet, and presentation (power point) utility, etc. There are even desktop oriented window managers such as KDe if you must have all the pointy-clicky stuff (prefer a command line interface for most thing so don't bother with KDE). But, you must know that even though you can get a lot of questions answered here, you must do the work yourself. FreeBSD is not oriented toward preventing you from learning things and managing your own machine like some Northwest USA companies seem to want to do. That takes some effort, but results in a more powerful environment once you get things under control. So, download the ISO, burn it and install it and start esperimenting and learning and doing some actual computer work. ////jerry > > > does your OS relate to this project? any help would be appreciated. > > thank you > tom gunderman > <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free > email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at > http://www.aol.com. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070311013604.GA42165>