From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 15 13:24:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA12919 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:24:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from attila.stevens-tech.edu (root@attila.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.14.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA12914 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:24:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wweng@attila.stevens-tech.edu) Received: from attila.stevens-tech.edu (attila.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.14.11]) by attila.stevens-tech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.3.1) with SMTP id QAA13735; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 16:24:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 16:24:26 -0500 (EST) From: Wei Weng To: Per Larson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions about freebsd In-Reply-To: <346DEEA1.E2059A0E@swipnet.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Per Larson wrote: > Hi! > > > I am thinking about changing from windows95 to freeBSD but i have some > questions that i hope you will answer: > > 1. Is it possible to run both win95 and freeBSD on one partition? nope. You have to run them on different partition. > 2. if so, can freeBSD run with fat32? Dont know... > 3. Is there any Microsoft Word compatible wordprocessors for freeBSD? You can use star office with freeBSD. And mostly you will find out latex most useful and convenience. > 4. Is freeBSD faster than win95? It depends. if you run win95 on a ppro with 256 MB ram but run freebsd on a 386 with 4MB ram. I have to say win95 is faster. > 5. is it possible to run dos and win95 programs in freeBSD? There are some emulator program for linux. And you might be able to run them in freebsd under linux emulation. > please answer my questions > > > //Per Larson > purl@swipnet.se > wei