Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:19:16 -0600 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: DAVID NOURIAN <breezenet@verizon.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question Message-ID: <436DA064.9080000@mkproductions.org> In-Reply-To: <000601c5e28e$469524e0$86ca6a47@DavidNourian> References: <000601c5e28e$469524e0$86ca6a47@DavidNourian>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig74CDB1F71E0B18403A7EE892 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DAVID NOURIAN wrote: > Hello, > > 1. If I decide to change to FreeBSD from WinXP, will I still be > able to run my windows programs? Yes and no. There is a program called WINE that does run some Windows applications (http://www.winehq.com/) but not all. That's an ongoing effort. Another option for running Windows software inside FreeBSD would be an emulator like Qemu or VMWare. Then you could actually install Windows to a virtual disk image and run it from inside FBSD. All programs would work but running the virtual Windows would be a bit slower than a real Windows install. When I made the move to FreeBSD from Windows for my desktop machines as well (I had previously only used FBSD for servers), I was worried about all my applications since I do a lot of audio production and streaming. If you already use programs like Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, X-Chat, gAIM, Audacity, VLC, GIMP, Azureus, etc, then those are available natively for FreeBSD without the need for any emulation. There are also tons of other free and open source programs to run on FreeBSD that can do what you need to do. Check out http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ for a list of 13,500+ applications that you can install very easily. Some examples would be Abiword for word processing, XMMS for a Winamp like media player, gFTP for a graphical FTP client, NVU for a free WYSIWYG web editor, and many many more. > 2. Can I ran WinXP for my Applications & FreeBSD as a web server? > Note: I have 2 HD's on my system & have ordered a 3rd HD to be > used as a web server HD . You could have FreeBSD on one drive and Windows XP on another and dual boot, but that wouldn't be reliable for serving. You could run one of the operating systems inside a virtual machine like Qemu or VMWare, but I personally wouldn't want to run FreeBSD in a VM that is running on Windows....to me that defeats the purpose of having a stable serving OS if the host OS that the VM is running on is unstable. Going the other way, you could have FreeBSD as the main OS and then install Qemu and put the disk image for your WinXP install on that other HD. HTH -Mark --------------enig74CDB1F71E0B18403A7EE892 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDbaBplH2ybcmj7I8RAm6nAKCAlMpF1q109eufmUDS2gIjXwetygCeKcoO QqqS0Tu7o/Cc3CoCF4ew1eM= =VExm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig74CDB1F71E0B18403A7EE892--
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