From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 0:27:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6C637B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9660D43E72 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:27:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2BE498148B; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:57:40 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:57:40 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Brian Astill Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? (was: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze [support groups]) Message-ID: <20020805072740.GA83171@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <00d301c23504$9bbe0c60$0a01a8c0@mswolf> <20020729102059.GA73294@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020731033658.GL17787@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200207311037.g6VAb5L68944@tierzero.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207311037.g6VAb5L68944@tierzero.apana.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 31 July 2002 at 20:12:14 +0930, Brian Astill wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> My questions to you: is there anything missing? > > I'd vote for the inclusion of le and making it the default editor. At first I thought you were joking, but you don't seem to be. > It is simple and IMHO all one could need for editing config files > and the like. It is also DEAD simple to use for the beginner. You > would also need emacs for serious editing, of course. The editor is arguably the most important tool that a user of a Real Computer has. Why give them a toy? > I'd prefer the slightly more up-market links to lynx. I'd prefer something with graphics. The last thing a beginner wants is a text-mode-only web browser. > You also seem to be missing burncd (we aren't all equipped with SCSI > burners) No, burncd is part of the base system. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message