From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 17:39: 0 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 DDBA637B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.southeast.rr.com (smtp2.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A1E43E65 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:38:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7 [24.93.67.54]) by smtp2.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6Q0e3ts017941; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:40:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:38:53 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 64F24BA12; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: "MET" , Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:38:51 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL> In-Reply-To: <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207252038.51170.bts@babbleon.org> 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 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) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message