From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 0:36:37 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 5CCBB37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE7943E42 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AB52E8148B; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:06:31 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:06:31 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Ed Yu Cc: Jud , Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com, mwvw@adelphia.net, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Re: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? (was: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze [support groups]) Message-ID: <20020805073631.GC83171@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020729215629.435b4356.jud@myrealbox.com> <20020730021610.25982.qmail@web20701.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020730021610.25982.qmail@web20701.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog 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 Monday, 29 July 2002 at 19:16:10 -0700, Ed Yu wrote: > --- Jud wrote: >> On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:00:16 +0930 >> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> [snip] >>> The real >>> problem I have is knowing which of the over 7,000 >> ports you want >>> to install to get "basic" desktop functionality. >> Some time ago >>> I created the "instant-workstation" port, but >> didn't make much >>> noise about it. instant-workstation basically >> installs a number >>> of dependent ports (see below for a list) and then >> does some >>> minor configuration. Over the past couple of days >> I've been >>> installing a brand new machine (laptop) for a >> friend, and I've >>> been looking at the rough edges. Here's what I've >> found: >> (much more similar mutilation removed) > > I have used mutt and I liked it but I think for > instant-workstation, evolution would be more > appropriate. Is that what you used to write this message? It causes massive mutilation of the mail messages. You should either fix it or move. > I have noticed also that new users seems to prefer galeon a lot as > well. I'm not looking so much at what new users prefer as what I think is good for them :-) Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key 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