From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 12:29:54 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 8E00737B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:29:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C6F143E65 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:29:49 -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 MAA31370; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:29:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3D4051A6.4080107@owt.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:29:42 -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: Mark Rowlands Cc: Jud , met@uberstats.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop References: <1027621659.65b8affcjud@myrealbox.com> <3D4048C6.4000804@owt.com> <200207252115.58094.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> 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 Mark Rowlands wrote: > 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 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 ? >>> > > > Something nobody else seems to mentioned..... you can run ipfilter or ipfw. As > my laptop gets plugged into a lot of windows environments, running ipfilter > and only opening up what I need when I need it is kind of comforting. I rarely agree 100% with anything. I can always find something wrong. I use FreeBSD because it handles source in a consistent manner, i.e., cvsup and one source (VERY IMPORTANT), and ipfw for a firewall. I could probably use Darren's program but got started on ipfw. What other OS can you exchange email with the developer and get a solution to a problem in 15 minutes. The fix is also available to everyone in the world at the same time. The first bug I found in Windows 98 was 6 months before I had a fix. I beta tested NT and its versions and problems on my systems were fixed before it was released. Kent -- 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