From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 4 13: 4:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E13D37B728 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA43E5; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:09:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3ACB7E3B.84EBB199@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:04:11 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MrK1nt@aol.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org MrK1nt@aol.com wrote: > > How do I know which ports are essential and which ports I dont really need? You don't really need any of them :-) But of course, you needs will be different from everyone else's. The best way is to just browse through them, reading their descriptions, until you find one that interests you. Then try it out. If you don't like it, uninstall it. What are you looking for? What will you be using your system for? What applications did you use the most in your old OS? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message