From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 13:52:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40FEC16A4B3 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from teeny2.aspadmin.com (teeny2.aspadmin.com [216.98.128.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E65343F75 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:52:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwilliams@courtesymortgage.com) Received: from jwilliams.courtesymortgage.com (CMC_pier_point [209.126.131.11] (may be forged)) by teeny2.aspadmin.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h9MKqsv24827 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:52:54 -0700 Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20031022134642.02692738@pop.courtesymortgage.com> X-Sender: jwilliams@pop.courtesymortgage.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:49:05 -0700 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Jason Williams Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Setting up FreeBSD 4.8 as a desktop station X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:52:55 -0000 Hello everyone. I'm pretty new to using FreeBSD as a workstation, but im very excited to do so. I've installed FreeBSD 4.8 and used CVSup to update both my source and ports tree. I've also installed portupgrade to update my ports to make sure I have a nice clean setup. I have Window Maker setup and working correctly. I just have a few questions that I wanted to ask on how to get a few things running. Basically, I want to get mozilla-firebird up and running as my browser. However, i'm a little confused on what I need to do as far as java and flash are concerned. So what I was hoping is if someone could point me in the right direction on how to get mozilla-firebird, java and flash setup and working correctly on my desktop. If more info is needed, please let me know. Cheers, Jason