From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 11:36:25 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 721FD37B401 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:36:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prserv.net (out1.prserv.net [32.97.166.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D88343E65 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:36:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdagee@attglobal.net) Received: from slip-12-65-121-208.mis.prserv.net ([12.65.121.208]) by prserv.net (out1) with SMTP id <20020725183618201011s4gte>; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:36:19 +0000 Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop From: karl agee To: MET Cc: freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL> References: <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 25 Jul 2002 11:36:49 -0700 Message-Id: <1027622211.497.4.camel@enterprise.workgroup> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message