From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 2 12:46:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nu.binary.net (nu.binary.net [12.13.120.25]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD10412F for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:46:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from matrix.binary.net (root@matrix.binary.net [12.13.120.2]) by nu.binary.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA18088; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:45:55 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by matrix.binary.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA85105; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:45:48 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:45:48 -0500 From: Nathan Dorfman To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Sameh Ghane , John Rosenberg , Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 Message-ID: <20000202154548.A84018@rtfm.net> References: <20000128153729.A64438@noc.fr.clara.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathon McKitrick on Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:06:57PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:06:57PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Sameh Ghane wrote: > Well, since right now i just run FreeBSD on a laptop as a workstation > for day-to-day tasks and programming, i want it to be more than just a > server. I wish they hadn't dropped their old slogan or goal of "turning PCs into > workstations". And that means that i *do* care about at least basic > multimedia and graphics use. > > > > >FreeBSD is even flexible enough to give me good workstations also, I don't > >feel this like a problem not being able to replace windows workstations. Until my only VGA monitor died a few months ago, I used my FreeBSD machine as a desktop. I didn't find it to lack anything I'd expect of a "multimedia" desktop environment. Audio? Plenty of players: mpg123 with or without the variety of X11 and curses interfaces to it [1]; x11amp; RealPlayer G2. Video? xanim, I also recall Mtv working. Games? Aside from the cool little things in ports/games (xkobo, xevil, heh) I have heard of people playing Quake [123], Civilization: Call to Power, and other commercial games under Linux emulation. Graphics? There's more graphics applications, utilities and libraries than I could even begin to name [2]. As an aside: since the FreeBSD-current box has no monitor, I'm using an ss5/85 running RedSplat as my desktop at home right now. My official report is that I can't f*cking stand it; the environment, configuration, and general design of the system strikes me as non-intuitive and irritates me to no end. I will be much happier when I save up the cash for that new K7 box and go back to FreeBSD. [1] Speaking of which, has anyone used gmp3? Comments? Other recommendations? [2] $ uname -sr FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE $ ls /usr/ports/graphics | wc -l 169 (subtract a few for Makefile, README.html, CVS and such of course). > >-- > >Sameh Ghane > > > > -=> jm <=- > > "Do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball." -- Nathan Dorfman The statements and opinions in my Unix Admin @ Frontline Communications public posts are mine, not FCC's. "The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train." --/usr/games/fortune To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message