On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Collins Richey <<a href="mailto:crichey@gmail.com">crichey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Leon Goldstein<br>
<<a href="mailto:metapsych@earthlink.net">metapsych@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Is anyone on the list using FreeBSD? I dabbled with an earlier version<br>
> (6.1) and was sufficiently impressed to have another go at it with 7.0<br>
> beta, which supports SMP. There are some essential Linux apps, e.g.<br>
> WP8.1, I would like to use.<br>
><br>
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I haven't tried FreeBSD in about 5+ years. At that time Linux apps<br>
(KDE for example) seemed to be much peppier than on a real Linux box.<br>
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--<br>
Collins Richey<br></blockquote></div><br>I'm currently running FreeBSD 6.3. I rely on FreeBSD to run my database and web servers; but I've never been too excited about running Linux apps on FreeBSD. It may have been my selection of Linux apps; but I kept running in the problem that the dependencies weren't installed with the base linux compatibility package. The FreeBSD handbook lists WordPerfect as one of the applications that should work without trouble, so your luck may be very different than mine.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html">http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html</a><br><br>Andrew Gould<br>