On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 09:41, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Chris wrote: > > I would like to know if this OS platform supports your everday and ever so > > standard .EXE applications. > > Yes, FreeBSD will run standalone executable code in the various .exe and .dll > formats, although people often use Wine or a similiar emulator if they want > to > have a more complete Windows environment available while using FreeBSD.
Surely not. I have never heard it suggested before that FreeBSD will run Windows .exe binaries directly. I would have thought that you would have to use Wine or Crossover Office. > > > Basically, I am wondering if FreeBSD is compatible to all of the endless > > softwares out there that "require" you to be using a certain version of > > Microsoft Windows? > > All of the software? No. > > Not that most Windows software is portable enough the run on all flavors of > Windows itself: there's plenty of old 16-bit stuff which won't work on a > modern Win32 platform (WinXP, 2003, etc), just as there is a huge amount of > stuff written today which won't run on Windows 3.1. > > That being said, FreeBSD doesn't come with the Windows DLL's that many > programs use. But they and other resources like TrueType fonts can be used > if > you migrate them, and if you check the ports collection you you find ways of > using Flash and RealPlayer and video codec stuff like that if you really want > to. Stability may suffer somewhat compared with purely native FreeBSD apps, > but if people want to view websites in Flash (or be advertised to, more > accurately), they can. > > See http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ > > > I'm not a computer genius (though for some reason many label me as that) > > but I know my way around the Windows platform quite well. I am not an > > advanced programmer in any sort, but I do try and have several different > > types of programming software. > > Don't worry about it-- I promise that we won't call you a computer genius if > you don't want us to. I make no comment on what might happen in the converse > situation, but I suggest verifying your sense of humor beforehand. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
