Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:32:08 -0600 From: Jason Porter <leporter@xmission.com> To: MET <met@uberstats.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Message-ID: <3D404428.70009@xmission.com> References: <002c01c23408$5a860330$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL>
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Yeah, it works great, I use it for a desktop. I too was tired of Windows so I decided to switch. For wordprocessing StarOffice / OpenOffice is out there (be warned though it takes a while to make) they work great. For programing I don't use an IDE, personally I'm a vi guy (I use vim and gvim) they work well for what I do. Some people use emacs, it's a preference thing. Email and web surfing can be done with mozilla. ICQ and AIM can be handled with gabber or gaim or some other ones out there. For mp3 players there are a lot out there in the ports colleciton. I use xmms and wmusic to dock it in WindowMaker. I'm quite pleased with FreeBSD as a desktop. It boots faster, shuts down faster. And I can use it for a test bed (I do web development). Probably the best thing so far is that it hasn't crashed too often, I think once or twice. And you can always rebuild the things that break :) So there's my little spiel on it. MET wrote: > 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 ? > > - Matthew > > > /************************************************************** > > Matthew Metnetsky > > met@uberstats.com > > **************************************************************/ > > -- -Jason Porter "Real programmers are secure enough to write readable code, which they then self-righteously refuse to explain." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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