From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 31 13: 4:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37DB37B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:04:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA84621; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 07:04:27 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from dougy.apana.org.au(203.3.126.131), claiming to be "dougy" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdf84618; Wed Nov 1 07:04:18 2000 Message-ID: <006101c0437f$2e745f60$837e03cb@dougy> From: "Doug Young" To: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Newbie packages Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 07:11:47 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I wasn't aware it was in ports ..... but then isn't that what this whole thread is about ?? There appears to be a HEAP of stuff in packages / ports / wherever without sufficient explanation of what the thing does. ----- Original Message ----- From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'Doug Young'" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 1:12 AM Subject: RE: Newbie packages > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Young > > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 6:33 PM > > To: ML Duke; SILVER, MICHAEL A > > Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; 'Keith Davey'; 'David Johnson' > > Subject: Re: Newbie packages > > FWIW, I'd like to see the VNC application included as a > > standard package in > > FreeBSD .... its infinitely > > more usable than commercial Windows equivalents like > > pcAnywhere / Terminal > > Services / etc & has the > > advantage of being usable in virtually all operating systems. > > It is in the ports, out of curiousity, why would you want it as a package > also? Just for speed? > > ...Michael... > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message