From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 4 20:56:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7378D37B446 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:56:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 5339 invoked by uid 0); 5 Apr 2001 03:56:41 -0000 Received: from pd4b9efae.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO lofizwei) (212.185.239.174) by mail.gmx.net (mail05) with SMTP; 5 Apr 2001 03:56:41 -0000 Message-ID: <002b01c0bd84$8b8732c0$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> From: "Michael Nottebrock" To: "David Johnson" , Cc: References: <32.12f954b8.27fcda96@aol.com> <3ACB8639.38D08B29@acuson.com> Subject: Re: Ports Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 05:57:32 +0200 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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. And, especially if one is used to Linux, a bash, which is the almost the first thing I do on any fresh BSD box - compile myself a bash from the ports collection and make it my default shell. :) Greetings, Michael Nottebrock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message