Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 15:47:23 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: fewtch@serv.net, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - I'm in love! Message-ID: <19980627154723.55046@nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980627065301.fewtch@serv.net>; from Tim Gerchmez on Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 06:53:01AM -0700 References: <XFMail.980627065301.fewtch@serv.net>
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On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 06:53:01AM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > some things I just can't do and software that's unavailable for > BSD as of yet (for example, listening to MP3 music files, x11amp. Probably at <URL:http://www.x11amp.org/>, but if not, the multimedia mailing list can probably point you at it. Alternatively, ports/audio/mpg123-0.59o ports/audio/xmpeg3 > and software like Adobe Photoshop, ports/graphics/gimp1. Oh yeah, prepare to be astounded by that one. > MS Word, ports/editors/staroffice (runs under Linix emulation, can be flaky. Then again, so is MS Word). Looks and runs like Word on steroids. Also includes a very nice Excel beater. Also available for Windows. Reads/writes Word format files. ports/editors/offix-editor. Don't know what it's like. ports/print/lyx. An almost WYSIWYG frontend for LaTeX. Extraordinarily powerful. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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