From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 30 11: 4:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 782D637B4C5 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:04:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ACC33326E; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:28:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97153326D; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:28:16 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:28:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: David Johnson Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie packages In-Reply-To: <39FDBE7E.5310B2B9@acuson.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > What about a list of appropriate and/or recommended packages to install > for newbies? Many Linux distributions have recommended packages for > beginners, which are selected by default. Instead of making the brand > new user select from two dozen text editors, one is selected by default. > With consumer-oriented operating systems (windows/mac), the packages are I dimly remeber seeing something just like this... but of course I can't find a link right now. I know that at least one of the FreeBSD books coming out soon has such a list. I'd love to see something like this again, and I'm willing to host it on my site too if needed. :) (With proper credit of course.) Sue may even be willing to add it to the official FreeBSD newbies site, which would be even better. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message