From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 6 20: 5:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from umd5.umd.edu (umd5.umd.edu [128.8.10.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E58914F12; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 20:05:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from marple.umd.edu (marple.umd.edu [128.8.10.50]) by umd5.umd.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA25365; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:05:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by marple.umd.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA09072; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:05:38 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: marple.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:05:37 -0500 (EST) From: James Howard X-Sender: howardjp@marple.umd.edu To: Nik Clayton Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What wouldn't you use FreeBSD for? In-Reply-To: <19991206184950.A97213@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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