From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 11:52: 4 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 5BF4037B426 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:51:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD07943E42 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:51:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28713; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:51:51 -0700 Message-ID: <3D4048C6.4000804@owt.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:51:50 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jud Cc: met@uberstats.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop References: <1027621659.65b8affcjud@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Jud wrote: > > -----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 ? You may find that having a dual boot is the only satisfactory solution. I have because it isn't the browsers that cause the problems. It is the web pages. For example, one of the sites that I use for a reference is http://www.llanera.com/musica/instrumentos.html. The URL has some musical instruments that many of us have never heard about. If you visit with Internet Explorer, you can see them. If you visit using anything else, you can't. There are many sites like this but Llanera.com was the first one to come to mind. I trust the full blown messengers so well that I have them on a sacrificial system. The rest are hidden behind a natd'ed firewall. The document processors aren't there. For example, if you want DTP, you need something like Adobe PageMaker and I don't have a version that will run on FreeBSD. It is fully functional on Macs and Windows. I am using a version of Kword to print text from FreeBSD. A letter to someone important is printed on XP or W2K using WordPerfect. If I don't trust a site, I connect using KDE-3's Kongueror on FreeBSD. It is on a system behind me as I type this. I just swing around and enter the URL. YMMV Kent > > - Matthew > > > /************************************************************** > > Matthew Metnetsky > > met@uberstats.com > > **************************************************************/ > > 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 > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message