Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:38:51 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: "MET" <met@uberstats.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Message-ID: <200207252038.51170.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL> References: <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL>
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On Thursday 25 July 2002 02:23 pm, 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 ?
I think that at this point, FreeBSD with KDE3 is probably better than Windows
for the desktop.
It still lags on games, though.
But if you don't need actual commercial software, OpenOffice has great office
programs (it's a sort of branch from StarOffice), ogle plays DVDs, mplayer
plays anything that Windows Media Player plays (and future versions will
support quicktime-sorenson 1 and realplayer). Flash and realplayer and all
that jazz runs under FreeBSD.
And if you have a few windows apps you have to use, there's always wine.
So, yes, I think it's up to snuff.
--
Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal)
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