Date: 21 Dec 2001 01:16:30 -0500 From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinion requested: contents of "instant workstation" port Message-ID: <1008915390.89306.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20011221160334.B11728@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011221160334.B11728@monorchid.lemis.com>
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On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 00:33, Greg Lehey wrote: > Some months ago I added an "instant workstation" metaport, intended to > be installed by people who had bought my book. After the Wind River > fracas, I am finally getting back to finishing the fourth edition of > the book, and I'm reconsidering the content of the port. I'd be > grateful for any suggestions. I'm attaching the current text of the > chapter describing it. I'd like some opinions on things to remove or > add to the list. I guess everyone has their opinion of their ideal workstation. For me, I like Gnome, pine, vim, and tcsh. I don't want to get into a holy war, though. Some additions might be portupgrade, linux-realplayer, xanim and/or xmovie. There are also quite a few DVD players in the ports collection. I don't own a DVD drive, so I can't really comment on which is best. [snip] > o netscape47-communicator is a web browser. Opera might also be an option. Many people like it, it's fast, and supports Netscape plugins. > o smbfs it is a complete kernel side implementation of SMB requester and > filesystem, used for accessing Microsoft's SMB file system. This isn't needed anymore since it's been merged into -stable and thus into 4.5-RELEASE. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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