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From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 11:19: 3 2002 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 C15D037B405 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (mailout6-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4472443E42 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:18:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from met@uberstats.com) Received: from SURVIVAL (rrcs-nys-24-97-200-196.biz.rr.com [24.97.200.196]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with ESMTP id g6PIIjp27247 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:18:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "MET" To: Subject: FreeBSD as a Desktop Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:23:10 -0400 Message-ID: <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_002D_01C233E6.D3746330" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002D_01C233E6.D3746330 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is without a doubt that FreeBSD is an amazing server OS, but how well does it stand as a desktop, or rather a laptop. To be blunt, I'm tired of Microsoft and was wondering how feasible it is to run FreeBSD as my Laptop OS. I will do some searching, but are there good GUI environments for word processing, C/C++ development, email, ICQ, some port of AOL Instant Messenger (I can't believe I'm putting this here), MP3 players/converters, web browsers that actually keep up to date with the standards, and anything else commonly used ? - Matthew /************************************************************** Matthew Metnetsky met@uberstats.com **************************************************************/ ------=_NextPart_000_002D_01C233E6.D3746330 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message

There is without a doubt that FreeBSD is an amazing server OS, = but how=20 well does it stand as a desktop, or rather a laptop. To be blunt, = I'm=20 tired of Microsoft and was wondering how feasible it is to run FreeBSD = as my=20 Laptop OS. I will do some searching, but are there good GUI = environments=20 for word processing, C/C++ development, email, ICQ, some port of AOL = Instant=20 Messenger (I can't believe I'm putting this here), MP3 = players/converters, web=20 browsers that actually keep up to date with the standards, and anything = else=20 commonly used ?

-=20 Matthew

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