From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 13:22:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17662 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 13:22:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17559 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 13:21:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA28928; Wed, 20 May 1998 13:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:18:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Icy cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions In-Reply-To: <35622D37.75B9@worldnet.att.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 May 1998, Icy wrote: > oK, what I'm wondering is what software is compatable with FreeBSD? I > mean, do programs have to be ported to it, or will it run a lot of > stuff(mainly WinNT/DOS apps, for me)? If it's on the web page, I'll try > and find it, again...thanks It's a UNIX, so unless there's an emulator available it has to be ported. Reportedly you can install Win95 in a Bochs (386-emulated) environment but it takes *forever*. Anything you were interested in, specifically? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message