Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:26:04 -0400, t2000k wrote:

Also, I'm not ready to ditch a few programs that I paid good money for
that are windows programs, and these have no close equivalents in Unix
type programs, so that requirement is non-negotiable. Wine must work
in the OS I choose for the laptop. For almost all other programs, even
ones I paid for (like MS Office) and work well for me in Windows,
there are suitable equivalents, so it's not like I need to run
everything I have been using before under Wine. Just a few programs.

Now you have a requirement for Wine! And you want something ready to use.
Take a look at http://www.winehq.org/site/download. The only binaries
available are for Linux. Solaris and PC-BSD. Since you have already
rejected PC-BSD and building from source is hardly "ready to use" your
choices have been defined for you.

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