From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jul 4 18:23:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA04731 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 18:23:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.axess.com (root@mail.axess.com [204.19.206.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04726 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 18:22:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ppawel@axess.com) Received: from my.domain (ppp-68.axess.com [204.19.207.68]) by mail.axess.com (8.8.5/8.7.2) with ESMTP id VAA14044 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 21:30:35 -0400 Received: (from ppawel@localhost) by my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00325; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 21:08:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ppawel) Message-ID: <19980704210846.A317@axess.com> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 21:08:46 -0400 From: "Peter D. Pawelek" To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: My Top Ten Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Reply-To: Alright, assuming that our prototypical newbie is connecting to the 'Net via PPP, here are the ten packages that I would deem essential: bash less popclient perl5 lynx mutt slrn expect (good for automating interactive scripts; possible security risk in some situations, however) vim nethack (obviously) There ya go! Peter Pawelek (ppawel@axess.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message