Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:05:37 -0500 (EST) From: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What wouldn't you use FreeBSD for? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.991206230352.9934A-100000@marple.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991206184950.A97213@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > Folks, > > I'm trying to produce a list of applications you'd use FreeBSD for, and, > for balance, I need a list of types of applications that FreeBSD doesn't > cut it at yet. > > So far I've got > > CAD / CAM -- No applications available > > Finance -- we've got spreadsheats, but nothing like Quicken, MS Money, > or QuickBooks. Apps like Gnumeric aren't there yet for the home user. > > Cutting edge multimedia -- Shockwave, et al. We tend to lag behind when > it comes to players, and we don't have any decent authoring software. You might want to note that there are often Linux-only binaries for Shockwave and RealPlayer which some have had some luck with. I will not verify that they work as I do not care enough to try, but I have heard good things. There are probably EMACS modes for the others too ;) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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