From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 12:16:10 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 9C7DD37B401 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FC3943E75 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:16:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 13614 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 21:14:57 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO pcmarpxy.tninet.se) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 21:14:57 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: Kent Stewart , Jud Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:15:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: met@uberstats.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1027621659.65b8affcjud@myrealbox.com> <3D4048C6.4000804@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <3D4048C6.4000804@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200207252115.58094.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> 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 July 25 2002 20:51, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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 ho= w > > 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 FreeBS= D > > 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 wi= th > > the standards, and anything else commonly used ? > Something nobody else seems to mentioned..... you can run ipfilter or ipf= w. As=20 my laptop gets plugged into a lot of windows environments, running ipfilt= er=20 and only opening up what I need when I need it is kind of comforting. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message