Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 07:57:33 -0700 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Development Projects (was:Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux) Message-ID: <36FBA05D.8B171CCE@thuntek.net> References: <XFMail.990326093022.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > On 26-Mar-99 Donald Wilde wrote: [snip] > > A full-featured browser and modern mail client is #4, one that doesn't > > hang when the ppp is not connected. MPHO is that Netscape is not likely > > to give us that, since AOL has hogtied and is now shredding them. > > Mozilla is a better choice in the long run, I think. Also, Mutt just > > doesn't cut it in the desktop world used to Eudora and Netscape mail > > readers. > > I use XFMail for my mail reader. It's a Eudora-like mail program for X that > supports POP3, IMAP, and local mailboxes. This leads into another one of my pet peeves about /stand/sysinstall and the ports tree. xfmail is IN our ports tree, but I went right by it when I did my desktop's 3.1 install. Many of our ../pkg/DESCR files are woefully dated, and many modern users don't have the foggiest idea what they do or what dependencies they require. (CVSup and Modula comes to mind, also the 47 different .releases of Tcl that get loaded) Will somebody commit to organizing an effort to update the one-liners and expand the DESCR files? I don't see much code being required, but lots of fingerwork and a bit of careful research. -- Donald Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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