From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 9 16:02:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5F41065677 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:02:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f210.google.com (mail-gx0-f210.google.com [209.85.217.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51C9E8FC17 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:02:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: by gxk6 with SMTP id 6so365858gxk.19 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:02:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=KItDlRLJLWbmRjwC5GoIp98CXGaL4WP9k2FTSGgQz4g=; b=OIhHyxINAXlaPcQk6SMin8l/n3G6X5+dLjf6KkL6qswlivc/jXUeVpH2noZ3MdboyS /z5fxnsyT1YREBCzjd4Txbkq46SlczPg4PMhX1k2RdRGaPpOmBUvbrY1CNcEd18ghLdS EcJxPtQuY8ZPW3hBBiuKCMIKdttNsdcaxy2CE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=GlSHDS5lZX83/+/LQbCyhgO8gNdmJ6IXvX9COsmPdX3eenCZZdH+SW8HAvXJMvVazy JUc6FNoNTQMXWEvXObcGNJETK68HdaS3+KF6zEl4d7d4vPu4Ief0AHnE2BUaPS1f7WP1 y/YQMcwsmMUhvv+7m/7PwmWAZGKL8ZxsJQvws= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.212.9 with SMTP id k9mr1397362ybg.28.1247155373758; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:02:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A561231.3080904@beanfield.com> References: <368E57AC-8366-46EA-BE1A-5EBB07B64EDC@hughes.net> <4A561231.3080904@beanfield.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:02:53 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0907090902g56bf9eehb7cef5419dff1bdc@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Brent Bloxam Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Chris , FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:02:55 -0000 On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Brent Bloxam wrote: > Chris wrote: > > The course is HTML. Mouse button operations should be close, >> a window that gives a simple file directory and a text editor that >> doesn't require learning a character command set would be the >> target. >> > > > Hi Chris, > > Maybe look at using Xfce, which is a lightweight window manager based on > GTK+ and is available in the ports tree and as a package (from the machine > specs, I assume you'll be installing packages). The theme you use for it > will impact performance as well, but the default should be fine. > > For text-editing you can try Mousepad ( > http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/) and Thunar ( > http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/) for file management > > I agree xfce is a good choice. Another thing you may wish to consider is a IDE to develop in. As someone already mentioned, learning vi is invaluable, but sometimes a gui editor is better suited to the task. My newest favorite is Netbeans. It's compatible with a host of different programming and markup languages including html. This will give you a nice gui with syntax highlighting and many other useful features. Most could also be found on vi/vim, but I suspect your students will have an easier time on Netbeans. It wouldn't be snappy on the hardware you mentioned but should be useable. Hopefully you have a better system to build packages on. -- Adam Vande More