From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 22:51:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F3037B401 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D66343FBD for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net) Received: from 133.st-louis-113-114rs.mo.dial-access.att.net ([12.85.109.133]) by mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12) with SMTP id <2003042705513311200ptn2qe>; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 05:51:33 +0000 From: Jonathan Drews To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 00:55:59 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304270055.59571.j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Thrilled with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 05:51:36 -0000 Hi: I have been using FreeBSD since January and just these past two weeks I have gotten my CUPS printing setup and my DRI working for my Radeon card. I also have my Epson scanner working as well as sound and my wheel mouse. I am really pleased with FreeBSD as a desktop. I am still having a few minor configuration problems with CUPS but I will get them worked out. The problem is that I need to find out where to specify the path to the CUPS lpr. The CUPS lpr is in /usr/local/bin but the path has /usr/bin first. For DRI I found Eric Anholt's site to be very good: http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/index.html Most of the apps work really well. I found that the *.ics files from Korganizer are recognized by my Windows Outlook calendar at work. They integrate flawlessly. In addition the *.rtf files from the word processor Ted (the new version 2.14 is now in ports) render perfectly in my Microsoft Word, at work. Even the tables display correctly. Abiword works very well too (Abiword 1.9.0 is now in ports). With Gnumeric I can read and edit *.xls files and then send those back to work. I first save the *.xls as a *.gnumeric and then edit it. Finally I save the finished spreadsheet as a *.xls and send it back. There are some font changes but the touch ups I have to do are really trivial. FreeBSD really works quite well as a desktop. I would say, for me, the biggest benefit is the Scilab port, which is like MatLab, a mathematical package. FreeBSD is a really fine system. Kind regards, Jonathan