From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 6 15:10:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5622814E90; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:10:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=propro) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11v7H4-0007bB-00; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:10:30 +0000 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 00:10:37 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders To: Nik Clayton Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What wouldn't you use FreeBSD for? In-Reply-To: <19991206184950.A97213@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > Folks, > > I'm trying to produce a list of applications you'd use FreeBSD for, and, > for balance, I need a list of types of applications that FreeBSD doesn't > cut it at yet. > > So far I've got > > CAD / CAM -- No applications available > > Finance -- we've got spreadsheats, but nothing like Quicken, MS Money, > or QuickBooks. Apps like Gnumeric aren't there yet for the home user. > > Cutting edge multimedia -- Shockwave, et al. We tend to lag behind when > it comes to players, and we don't have any decent authoring software. > > That's about it. Are there any other application segments that FreeBSD > isn't represented in (from a home or office user perspective)? > AFAIK there is not much possible with those $100 webcams that are so popular now. Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl marc@oldserver.demon.nl propro 12:08am up 20:57, load average: 3.00 2.66 2.44 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message