Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:30:45 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... Message-ID: <823306184.20050212113045@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <200502120122.33589.reso3w83@verizon.net> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050211122632.99069G-100000@fledge.watson.org> <1935025570.20050211232605@wanadoo.fr> <dcb2c27a05021200582c5750c1@mail.gmail.com> <200502120122.33589.reso3w83@verizon.net>
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Michael C. Shultz writes: > I Agree! My FreeBSD desktop is very stable and user friendly. What > ever time I spend fixing/managing desktops is on my friends windows > machines, never my own because it always just works. Maybe you can explain to me how to get the following applications to run on a FreeBSD desktop: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Quark XPress The Sims 2 Flight Simulator UltraEdit Visual InterDev Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Money The Bat! Opera Firefox Microsoft Internet Explorer Corel KnockOut Flight Check Bar Code Pro MathType SecureFX SecureCRT SFS Rebel Fritz 6.0 POV-Ray Adobe PageMaker Adobe Streamline Adobe Acrobat (full version) Paint Shop Pro Palm Desktop SimCity GeoClock Ear Test BlitzIn Audio MP3 Editor Forte Agent Movie Maker Nikon Scan Rainbow Wacom Intuos However, I should point out that I also have applications that will not run on Windows: BIND sendmail syslog sshd ProFTP SFTP The list is not long for FreeBSD, but every one of these applications is a critical application, and most must run without fail 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Any one of them is enough to justify running a dedicated FreeBSD server. For this reason, I have several machines: a FreeBSD server, a Windows XP desktop, and a Windows NT server used as a desktop (to support some legacy applications). -- Anthony
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