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Date:      Mon, 5 Aug 2002 09:38:34 +0100
From:      Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Christophe Juniet <cjuniet@entreview.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/41106: FreeBSD Handbook lacks "Desktop Applications" chapter.
Message-ID:  <20020805093834.A35950@eborcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020805000210.48508.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com>; from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com on Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 05:02:10PM -0700
References:  <20020804191139.GA67318@daemon.entreview.com> <20020805000210.48508.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 05:02:10PM -0700, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> 
> ---
> 6.2 Browsers
> FreeBSD does not come with a particular browser pre-installed. Instead, the
> www ports collection contains a lot of browsers ready to be installed. If you
> don't have time to compile everything (this can be very long in some cases) 
> many of them are available as packages.
> ---
> 
> The FreeBSD Project does not provide X11 desktops as "packages" anymore.  I
> am not sure if they are still provided on CD-ROMs or not.  Everything else
> looks nice; it was only a brief look though.

Both X11 desktops and Web browsers are provided as packages.  Hiten, I
don't understand your comment:  The excerpt of Chris's article above
looks fine to me.

Tom

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