From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 18:33:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org 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 2DF9A16A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:33:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from engineh4u@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from web25913.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web25913.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.176.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CBB943D49 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:33:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from engineh4u@yahoo.co.uk) Received: (qmail 4886 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Jan 2006 18:33:23 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=PmyCCwMHjuWBhrZi0hg3SM5EQc97xPuAfcONqunLy/v0KNuReYYZW9d8fL8QYjl4v4W9XY48r1PkmzDiH8f5efaJbWJUZ/SzeiPfLx8GSbfyh3dlwsEon9IUfvLsTsEEgpQcZi5MvyeiX2zd5mTSfnIFouHY4UmfMrAJarXY2gs= ; Message-ID: <20060131183323.4884.qmail@web25913.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Received: from [217.200.200.52] by web25913.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:33:18 GMT Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:33:18 +0000 (GMT) From: engineh4u engineh4u To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: ports 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: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:33:25 -0000 Hello! I am a FreeBSD user from 6 months now. Getting from linux to FreeBSD it was easy but I still use linux for certain aplications. Probably on the desktop side of the operating system i do miss a few applications from linux such as: kphonetools, xfsamba, the installation of kde-meta applications one by one rather than a whole block, the flash from macromedia etc. Well to be honest I would like FreeBSD to have the same number of ports as Gentoo Linux on the desktop side of the operating system. There are so many people out there who switch distros because they want something more stable and with as many as possible applications. According to my research people stick to a distro because of the following reasons: Stability Securitty Variety of different programs to run Newer and updated software regularly. Probably having it's own port rather than a linux port for the same software such as bsd firefox and linux firefox. I hope this helps on the spread of the distro. Regards John --------------------------------- Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now.