Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:27:39 -0400 From: "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com> To: met@uberstats.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Message-ID: <1027621659.65b8affcjud@myrealbox.com>
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From: "MET" <met@uberstats.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:23:10 -0400
Subject: FreeBSD as a Desktop
There is without a doubt that FreeBSD is an amazing server OS, but how
well does it stand as a desktop, or rather a laptop. To be blunt, I'm
tired of Microsoft and was wondering how feasible it is to run FreeBSD
as my Laptop OS. I will do some searching, but are there good GUI
environments for word processing, C/C++ development, email, ICQ, some
port of AOL Instant Messenger (I can't believe I'm putting this here),
MP3 players/converters, web browsers that actually keep up to date with
the standards, and anything else commonly used ?
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- Matthew
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See http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html .
Regarding running on your laptop, see
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/hardware-i386.html
Yes, that's a bit cryptic, but these pages will
give you some answers, and allow you to ask more
specific questions.
HTH,
Jud
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