From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 14 4: 0:15 2002 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 9070E37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 04:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E07C43EB7 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 04:00:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (97709588852fcef6ae2d1b3d594a336c@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9EAuQUn007144; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:56:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:56:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: ML Duke Cc: David Johnson , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie packages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, ML Duke wrote: > > > So I'm thinking of creating a short article (unofficial) that lists one > > > or two recommended packages in a variety of categories. > > Excellent idea. I remember being so confused even to make a port > to _try_ an application was a trial: "make? right. What's make?" > Seems we can do that right here on this list real simple like. > > For starters I would recommend: > Lynx > Pine > Netscape > ee > ispell > xpdf > CorelWP > gimp > > Course that's just me. With enough contributions, we could probably > cover most everything right here on newbies. > > ML Duke > > I haven't been following this in detail but my recommendations are 1) cvsup and 2) a good shell, probably bash because it does everything and Linux uses it as the default. Beyond that it depends on what you want to to--I was using "mail" to send mail tonight, just out of sheer quick convenience. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com; with 4.6.2 installation CD (soon to be 4.7 and then.... Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message