Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:09:30 +0100 From: Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org> To: Sergei Gnezdov <sgnezdov@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend Message-ID: <41E8F9EA.2030900@orchid.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <1105761003.669.17.camel@owl2> References: <1105761003.669.17.camel@owl2>
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Sergei Gnezdov wrote: > Hi, > > I need to consider if my friend can migrate from windows. Do you know > of a good user friendly alternatives (may be not as powerful)? I might > be able to answer most of the items, but I'd like to make sure that I > know about the options: Hello Sergei, Here's short list what I use / would use: > Alternatives for: > > - MS Office XP. I don't think he has very complex documents. OpenOffice > - ACDSE 5.0, Photoshop. I am not convinced that he edits or creates > images. GIMP (to create/modify images) > - WinRAR and WinZIP There are several command line tools in /usr/ports/archivers. As for GUI: If you're using KDE there's ARK in kdeutils. Gnome should have something similar. > - WinAMP XMMS > - Virtual CD don't know this software > - Some kind of CD Burner burncd with mkisofs works great if you don't mind command line. K3b (/usr/ports/sysutils/k3b) is great if you like GUI . > - Some DVD Player > - AC3filter mplayer (all you need is in there already) > - Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this) I cannot comment on this but mplayer is supposed to do that. Regards, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org>
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