Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

[Kris Maglione]

Sergei Gnezdov wrote:

>Alternatives for:
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>- MS Office XP.  I don't think he has very complex documents.
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OpenOffice.org (works with windows too), KOffice

>- ACDSE 5.0, Photoshop.  I am not convinced that he edits or creates
>images.
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GIMP 2.0

>- WinRAR and WinZIP
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KDE's Ark/command line utils

>- WinAMP
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XMMS is popular, but there are lots of other great ones. Most of them 
are good. I like Xinf, but I don't use it anymore.

>- Virtual CD
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mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file.iso -u 1
mount_cd9660 /dev/md0 /cdrom1

>- Some kind of CD Burner
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xcdroast, gnome has support too

>- Some DVD Player
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Xine, Ogle, Mplayer. All good, Mplayer sucks for DVDs, though

>- AC3filter
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some command line tool and a few gui apps

>- Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this)
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There is a good GUI app for this, but I forget what it's called. Check 
ports.

As a note, though. This friend may be better off with a linux distro. 
FreeBSD is not newbie friendly and lacks certain hardware/software 
support that linux has. Not having ALSA precludes certain apps from 
working/working well.
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