Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-18 Thread Kris Maglione
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Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-18 Thread Sandy Rutherford
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:10:15 -0600, > Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:00:25 -0800 > Sandy Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:20:58 -0600, >> > Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> >> Virtual CD is a

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:00:25 -0800 Sandy Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:20:58 -0600, > > Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >> Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( > >just> like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just moun

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-17 Thread Sandy Rutherford
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:20:58 -0600, > Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just >> like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just mount .iso files with >> FreeBSD : man mount_cd9660 > Last I checked, it required a bit mo

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-16 Thread Xian
On Saturday 15 January 2005 21:17, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:58:41 + > > Xian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:50, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: > > > > > > - WinAMP > > > > Xmms (only under FeeSBIE), it even looks and feels like WinAMP > > I am confuse

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Kris Maglione
Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just mount .iso files with FreeBSD : man mount_cd9660 You can't directly mount iso files, you need to vn/mdconfig them first. ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:32:00 + Frank Staals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > > > > > > > > >>- Virtual CD > >> > >> > > > >don't know this software > > > > > > > Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just > like alcohol or deamontools ) yo

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:58:41 + Xian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:50, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: > > - WinAMP > Xmms (only under FeeSBIE), it even looks and feels like WinAMP I am confused by this comment, I thought it looked like winamp and worked a lot like

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:50:03 -0800 Sergei Gnezdov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > sur

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Dave
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:09:30 +0100, you wrote: >> - 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. > His friend should try out FreesBie (live, bootable FreeBSD CD, no HDD install required). It has all of the requir

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Kris Maglione
Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Alternatives for: - MS Office XP. I don't think he has very complex documents. OpenOffice.org (works with windows too), KOffice - ACDSE 5.0, Photoshop. I am not convinced that he edits or creates images. GIMP 2.0 - WinRAR and WinZIP KDE's Ark/command line utils - Wi

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Frank Staals
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: - Virtual CD don't know this software Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just mount .iso files with FreeBSD : man mount_cd9660 ___ freebsd-question

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
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

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Xian
On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:50, 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 th

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-14 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
> Again, these can be found on the website - > http://www.freebsd.org/applications.html... And again, have "your > friend" research it on his own. Right. Not everybody knows English and not everybody has unlimited Internet connection. And by the way, lots of free software is for geeks only. I

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-14 Thread Chris
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: Alternatives for: - MS Office XP. I

Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-14 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
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: Alternatives for: - MS Office XP. I don't think he has