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 program to mount iso images if I'm

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-18 Thread Kris Maglione
not sure what vn or md stand for in FreeBSD Virtual Node Memory Disk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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 more... you have to

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 mount .iso files with

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: snip - WinAMP Xmms (only under FeeSBIE), it even looks and feels like WinAMP I am confused by this

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 the

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 short

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 ___

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 -

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 required

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 sure that

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: snip - 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 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 ) you can just mount .iso files

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. ___

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

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.

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 have