From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 15 19:28:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA14098 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 19:28:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from eh.est.is (root@eh.est.is [194.144.208.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA14091 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 19:28:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from totii@est.is) Received: from didda.est.is (ppp-42.est.is [194.144.208.142]) by eh.est.is (8.8.5/8.8.7) with SMTP id DAA22924; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 03:27:57 GMT (envelope-from totii@est.is) Message-ID: <346E6840.167EB0E7@est.is> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 03:28:00 +0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DEor=F0ur?= Ivarsson X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wei Weng CC: Per Larson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions about freebsd References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id TAA14094 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wei Weng wrote: > > 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... Can not run on fat32 but they can co-exist on same disk > > > 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 -- Þórður Ívarsson Thordur Ivarsson Rafeindavirki Electronic technician Norðurgötu 30 Nordurgotu 30 Box 309 Box 309 602 Akureyri 602 Akureyri Ísland Iceland --------------------------------------------- FreeBSD has good features, Some others are full of unwanted features! ---------------------------------------------