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Date:      25 Jul 2002 11:36:49 -0700
From:      karl agee <kdagee@attglobal.net>
To:        MET <met@uberstats.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop
Message-ID:  <1027622211.497.4.camel@enterprise.workgroup>
In-Reply-To: <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL>
References:  <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL>

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On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 11:23, MET wrote:
> 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:  All of the above.  Gnome and KDE for the desktop,
WordPerfect/Abiword/StarOffice/OpenOffice for your productivity apps,
Evolution or other for email/pim, LICQ for ICQ and there are apps for
AIM, MP# players/converters galore, Galeon/Mozilla/Netscape/Opera for
your browsing pleasure..

All of these and more available in ports.  And I might say most of it
came from the Linux World...

--karl


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