From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 28 6: 3:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com (smtp016.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA28E37B417 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 06:03:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from unknown (HELO mlevy) (12.27.148.78) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2001 14:03:28 -0000 Message-ID: <006201c17815$d8960040$fd6e34c6@mlevy> From: "Bara Zani" To: Subject: freebsd as a desktop ? Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:06:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Ok , I am not starting a flame/holy war here !!! this is purely out of curiosity , so a reasonable answer is required please , if you feel this is bul... than I apologize and ask you to ignore . for the sake of others please respond to my email address and not the list and I will summarize . and now for the question : I use both Linux and freebsd as servers and am happy with it ( I'd take nix over m$ any day ) . I work for a primarily nt shop now and of course sometimes the nix vs. nt question arises . I figured that I'm all talk cause I use freebsd for servers but win2k as my desktop . so I decided to install freebsd and use it as my desktop client now here is where I need your help : I use my desktop for - email , web , mp3 and downloads ... as for email - I figured I can use fetchmail for multiple accounts and pine to read/sort in folders - but what happens with attachments ? as for web - I have tried in vain to enable the java plugin on mozilla can someone help with that ? as for mp3 - what do I use ? I know xmms for Linux but for fbsd ? as for other stuff - image viewers ( xv ? ) video files ( mpg, divx , avi ) also can I use star office with freebsd ? any other personal experience for using freebsd as a desktop and server are welcomed . please email me and not the list and I will summarize , thanks barazani _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message