From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 20 13:20:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF65437B408 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unixverse@mac.com) Received: from [63.197.41.50] by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GGS004Q0GHS87@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:20:20 -0700 From: Jim Krenz Subject: Program recommendations To: FreeBSD QUESTIONS Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.1.3108 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I have just installed FreeBSD 4.3, and am now attempting to figure out which programs to use for various tasks. I am completely new to Unix-like systems and the choices of options are plentiful (and somewhat confusing to my newbie mind). In particular, I would like opinions on the following three: Shell Text editor E-mail client I realize this is a slightly loaded question, as I suspect that everyone has their favorite program. But I am asking this because I am overwhelmed at the moment, and need some help to get started. My main concern is this: I don't want to spend a ton of time learning one program, and then six weeks later, find out that there is a better program that was already available. I don't care if a program is harder to initially learn--I just want the one that will serve me the best for the long term. Thanks for any advice! Jim Jim Krenz unixverse@mac.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message