From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 2:44:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8B1D37B406 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 02:44:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 38199 invoked by uid 100); 3 Oct 2001 09:44:21 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15290.56821.22560.324180@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 04:44:21 -0500 To: Nathan Mace Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favorite ports? In-Reply-To: <41228846@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nathan Mace types: > what i mean is when you guys do a fresh install of freebsd for a > workstation/desktop type computer...what apps do you install? Ahh, that's a slightly less vague question. lwm for a window manager - small, fast, unobtrusive, and it does everything I want a window manager to do - which is more than I can say for MS's products! You'll want 9menu as well. gkrellm and some of the plugins for it. Xemacs, of course. No computer is complete without an emacs. For web work, the emacs psgml package as well. For working with cds, cdrtools, mkisofs, tosha, cdrdao, xcdplayer and of course xmixer. For graphics work, gimp, xsane and possibly photopc. Fxtv if I've got a tv card. plaympeg and playavi for playing things. If I'm going to be interacting with those who've drunk the MS cool-aide, StarOffice. If I need office tools for my own work, I buy ApplixWare Office. > i don't have time to INSTALL every app in the ports tree..... Do you have time to do this: $ cd /usr/ports $ find . -maxdepth 3 -name pkg-descr | xargs more ? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message