From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 7:43:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (rr-163-52-193.atl.mediaone.net [24.163.52.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A6537B405 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 07:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.smnolde.com ([192.168.10.7] helo=bsd) by smnolde.com with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15oQlH-00050X-00; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:43:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:43:03 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Nathan Mace Cc: Patrick O'Reilly , Subject: Re: favorite ports? In-Reply-To: <20011002103721.7ea1cb80.nmace85@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20011002104002.D2499-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just browse through the ports collection at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ Of course there's tons of stuff, but only you can decide what you need based upon the needs of the computer. Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 smacked into the keyboard previously: > >what i mean is when you guys do a fresh install of freebsd for a >workstation/desktop type computer...what apps do you install? for >instance i've learned about nethack, nessus, mtr, and several other >apps from various mailing lists that otherwise i wouldn't have known >that these apps existed. i'm just asking what apps you guys might be >asking so if there's any great apps out there i don't know about, you >guys would be able to point out. > >i couple have said that i should just install what i need, how do i know >what i need if i don't know whats out there? yea i know if i need an >mp3/ripper frontend to install grip, if i need an network debugger get >nessus/mtr/ethereal...but what about the apps that i don't know about? >i don't have time to INSTALL every app in the ports tree..... > >nathan > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7udJ7vDSQh9hpq0gRArUnAKCQjjlL/LK9EKKG+iUYjpkzDi6jaACggh3h HrGrknpd5sm3VHn3TfgfpQA= =YWuQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message