From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 11:27:45 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 7525A37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC4943E31 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from jud [12.33.164.6] by myrealbox.com with NetMail ModWeb Module; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:27:39 -0400 Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop From: "Jud" To: met@uberstats.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:27:39 -0400 X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module X-Sender: jud MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1027621659.65b8affcjud@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 -----Original Message----- From: "MET" To: Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:23:10 -0400 Subject: FreeBSD as a Desktop 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 ? =20 - Matthew =20 =20 /************************************************************** =20 Matthew Metnetsky =20 met@uberstats.com =20 **************************************************************/ =20 See http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html . Regarding running on your laptop, see http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/hardware-i386.html Yes, that's a bit cryptic, but these pages will give you some answers, and allow you to ask more specific questions. HTH, Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message