From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 14:21: 3 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 4C65037B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vdsi.net (vdsi.net [206.67.5.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CC243E5E for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rseals@vdsi.net) Received: from [10.200.10.14] ([204.193.71.254]) by vdsi.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA52174; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:21:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rseals@vdsi.net) Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop From: Ray Seals To: MET Cc: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL> References: <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 25 Jul 2002 16:20:20 -0500 Message-Id: <1027632050.283.80.camel@trsealslptp1> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 I'm happy to say that I have been 100% Microsoft Free for the past 2 months. My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 2715X/DVD. Running FreeBSD 4.6. I have a NetGear FA411 nic and I also use a Linksys wireless card for my home network. I'm a long time subscriber to the CD distribution of FreeBSD. I use KDE 3.0 as my Desktop. I purchased Star Office for Linux from Sun. I can read/save/print/create in Office 2000/98 format as well as StarOffice. One of the best $75.00 (not sure of the exact amount at the moment) I've spent on software in a long time. I use Evolution 1.0.7 for E-mail. I connect via IMap to an Exchange server when I need to. I have also thought about purchasing the Exchange connector from Ximian. I run Linux Netscape 6 and I also use the Konqueror. I run axyftp for my FTP client. I run xmms for streaming audio. I enjoy those shoutcast streams. I use Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF files. I use shlight to connect to the NT network shares. I use sane to pull images off of my digital camera. I use XChat for IRC. I'm not a developer but I do some web site maintenance. I'm still looking for a good WYSIWYG web editor but I can kick it old school with vi. I'm a Network Engineer so I use Ethereal a lot. I use APSFilter to print to our network printers and to my printers at home. I use Konsole to do all my telnet/ssh stuff in. I use cu when I need to connect my serial port to the console of any network equipment. It's a great feeling. It hasn't been always easy but I'm happy with my setup. I play MP3's on my laptop but I dont usually rip and encode them on my laptop. I do those at home on my desktop machine. There is a port of the AOL Instant Messenger that a buddy of mine uses. I don't. Ray On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:23, MET wrote: > 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 ? > > - Matthew > > > /************************************************************** > > Matthew Metnetsky > > met@uberstats.com > > **************************************************************/ > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux is for people who hate Microsoft. BSD is for people who love UNIX. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message