From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Sep 19 11:23:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from osage.gate.net (osage.gate.net [198.206.134.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D6315177 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:23:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjm@gate.net) Received: from inca.gate.net (wjm@inca.gate.net [199.227.0.11]) by osage.gate.net (8.8.6/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA150780; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:22:39 -0400 Received: from localhost (wjm@localhost) by inca.gate.net (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA144176; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:24:32 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: inca.gate.net: wjm owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:24:31 -0400 (EDT) From: William Melanson To: Haikal Saadh Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which software? In-Reply-To: <002901bf02a8$0a8c6e80$d2c593cb@demuire> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Haikal Saadh wrote: % % I was just wondering, which software would you consider 'must have's? % For starters, there's bash, xwindows and the mtools... % What software can you absolutely not do without? % sendmail (comes with os) lynx (ascii web browser) tcp wrappers (security purposes) XFree86 (free xserver) windowmaker (or whatever window manager you may wish) apache (if you wish to have your machine funtion as an httpd server) pine (great for reading/writing/editing email locally) less (great for viewing/editing text files functions are simular to the more or page Command) cucipop (that's if you wish to run as a POP3 server) I may be missing a few but that should build a good base system... --------------------------------oOo------------------------------------ William J. Melanson CyberGate, Inc. | e.spire Communications Sr Network Controller Deerfield Beach, FL 33441 Network Operations Center Phone: (954) 429-8080 finger wjm@gate.net PGP public key --------------------------------oOo------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message