From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 4 13:38:21 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 D773037B71A for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:38:19 -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 AAA586A; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:43:34 -0700 Message-ID: <3ACB8639.38D08B29@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:38:17 -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: <32.12f954b8.27fcda96@aol.com> 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: > > Im really new to FreeBSD/Unix. I just want to get it up and running, connected to the net, etc. I can get it up and running, and connected to the net, without using any ports. If you're looking for a desktop system, it will be kind of sparse and boring, but if you just want a server, then it will be sufficient. The complete FreeBSD without ports comes with a shell, a compiler, a text editor, a bare-bones GUI, a plethora of networking tools, etc. To this mix, I would add (my own personal preference) kde2.1, cvsup, and ghostscript. If you plan to do development, then get kdevelop2 or xemacs as an ide, autoconf, automake, and gmake. For word processing and stuff, get Staroffice. For painting and image processing get gimp. For playing audio get xmms. It's up to you. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message