From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 05:25:13 2003 Return-Path: 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 3CD0B16A4B3 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 05:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA10044039 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 05:25:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas.kohn@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 30431 invoked by uid 65534); 28 Sep 2003 12:25:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [172.16.32.190]) (212.204.32.190) by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 28 Sep 2003 14:25:09 +0200 X-Authenticated: #2431876 From: Andreas Kohn To: Prashant Boricha In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1064751922.881.3.camel@klamath> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:25:22 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:25:13 -0000 On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 14:16, Prashant Boricha wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know more about FreeBSD, I m very much interested in it. But > from what I infer it does'nt seem to be used at home. I would like to use it > at home for connecting to the net, watching movies, playing songs, doing > work in Office software. > > Please tell me if I can do so using BSD. Hi, you can do everything you named with FreeBSD. Internet: Many browsers like FireBird, Mozilla, Konqueror Watching movies: mplayer, xine Playing songs: XMMS Office: AbiWord, OpenOffice, KOffice, ... These and more programs are available through the FreeBSD ports collection, which is installed during the setup. More information can be found in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html for example sections 15 and 16. Regards, -- Andreas Kohn