From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 31 16:29:42 2000 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 37F8937B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:29:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA6285 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:32:55 -0800 Message-ID: <39FF634E.48ADADF3@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:26:54 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: A sample category Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Here is a sample category that I came up with for a newbies' ports guide. I looked over Annalisa's chapter, and I these are two related but different ideas. I still don't know about following the ports categories as is. Some categories might have a dozen good packages to mention, while others might not have any. Anyway, here it is, and it's just a rough sample with semi-randomly chosen apps. Is this too much, too little, just right... David ---------- Music ----- cdplay-0.92 ----------- cdplay allows you to play your CD's from a text based interface. This means that you can play your favorite albums with a single interface regardless of whether you are in console or X11 mode. "cdplay is great. I don't have to start up my window manager just to hear my music", Fred Foobar "I've tried a lot of CD players, but I keep coming back to cdplay. It just does what I want", Betty Bogosity xmms-1.2.3_1 ------------ The X Multimedia System. This multimedia player handles handles a huge variety of sound types from CDs to MP3s to Mods. A wide variety of skins and plugins are available. http://www.xmms.org "xmms rocks!", Jimmy the Jockey "I've got a huge collection of MP3s and xmms handles them all for me, and it does it in style". Nick the Napster To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message