From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 08:08:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4D516A422 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:08:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xnooby@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 877E843D46 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:08:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xnooby@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id q2so133546uge for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:08:23 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=EU4Q6qfPc6I2O9K8IDegItXTjB0VUingKBmzYZ9NYw+oYcc2/7hAQ7PglT7Sy6+o3dY4MoAD/szcs2C2OY89pzbX/RegmqgWF4hyI8hmnHoXK59hVPZGDL7+faJSic7fJBrvBoDwglHhYywS68nbZfecgPzuWbct4WslHMvhDHs= Received: by 10.49.21.8 with SMTP id y8mr261423nfi; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:25:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.216.4 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:25:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:25:08 -0500 From: Xn Nooby To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Is there a how-to super-page for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:08:25 -0000 There are several websites people have put together for Ubuntu that show every little step for configuring Ubuntu, is there such a page for FreeBSD? For example, tonight I installed Firefox, and wanted to install Acrobat, Flash, Realplayer, and Java. I was able to find Acrobat and Flash by using Google (the solution was at bsdforums.org). Realplayer and Java I still need to find. Here is an example of a really useful Ubuntu page: http://ubuntuguide.org The "Add-On Applications" is especially useful for people who have just don= e an install, and want their machine to be a "desktop" machine. It just seems like the only way to find out things for FreeBSD is to ask on the lists, or Google a list archive. It would be really great if there was a "super-page" that had all the common add-ons. I use Fluxbox instead of GNOME or KDE, so I prefer generic solutions. I've been keeping notes as I play with FreeBSD, and will eventually put up such a page if no one beats me to it. I'm still a FreeBSD nooby though, so it might take me a while. There are some people here that bascially know how to do everything with FreeBSD, I guess I'm hoping they will put something together (or maybe help me).