From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 5 1:38:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A7C37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.zen.co.uk (parmenides.zen.co.uk [212.23.8.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7AE543E3B for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:38:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 5563 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2002 08:38:35 -0000 Received: from protagoras.zen.co.uk (212.23.8.61) by parmenides.zen.co.uk with QMQP; 5 Aug 2002 08:38:35 -0000 Received: from dsl-62-3-122-102.zen.co.uk (HELO eborcom.com) (62.3.122.102) by protagoras.zen.co.uk with SMTP for ; 5 Aug 2002 08:38:35 -0000 X-Envelope-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: (qmail 36766 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Aug 2002 08:38:34 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 09:38:34 +0100 From: Tom Hukins To: Hiten Pandya Cc: Christophe Juniet , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/41106: FreeBSD Handbook lacks "Desktop Applications" chapter. Message-ID: <20020805093834.A35950@eborcom.com> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Hukins , Hiten Pandya , Christophe Juniet , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <20020804191139.GA67318@daemon.entreview.com> <20020805000210.48508.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020805000210.48508.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com>; from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com on Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 05:02:10PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message