Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:51:38 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinion requested: contents of "instant workstation" port Message-ID: <20011221175138.C11728@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1008915390.89306.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20011221160334.B11728@monorchid.lemis.com> <1008915390.89306.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Friday, 21 December 2001 at 1:16:30 -0500, Joe Clarke wrote: > 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. Right, there are a number of other choices. Basically, what it boils down to is what I prefer to recommend :-) But you're right, I shouldn't be trying to convert people, and I'll mention that your choices there too. > 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. I've tried Opera. I don't like it. >> 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. Ah, right. Thanks. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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