From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 28 06:44:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA23194 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 06:44:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA23036 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 06:43:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25437; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 15:47:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19980627154723.55046@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 15:47:23 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: fewtch@serv.net, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - I'm in love! References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Tim Gerchmez on Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 06:53:01AM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 06:53:01AM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > some things I just can't do and software that's unavailable for > BSD as of yet (for example, listening to MP3 music files, x11amp. Probably at , but if not, the multimedia mailing list can probably point you at it. Alternatively, ports/audio/mpg123-0.59o ports/audio/xmpeg3 > and software like Adobe Photoshop, ports/graphics/gimp1. Oh yeah, prepare to be astounded by that one. > MS Word, ports/editors/staroffice (runs under Linix emulation, can be flaky. Then again, so is MS Word). Looks and runs like Word on steroids. Also includes a very nice Excel beater. Also available for Windows. Reads/writes Word format files. ports/editors/offix-editor. Don't know what it's like. ports/print/lyx. An almost WYSIWYG frontend for LaTeX. Extraordinarily powerful. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message