Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:02:53 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Brent Bloxam <brentb@beanfield.com> Cc: Chris <eagletree@hughes.net>, FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long) Message-ID: <6201873e0907090902g56bf9eehb7cef5419dff1bdc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A561231.3080904@beanfield.com> References: <368E57AC-8366-46EA-BE1A-5EBB07B64EDC@hughes.net> <4A561231.3080904@beanfield.com>
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Brent Bloxam <brentb@beanfield.com> wrote: > Chris wrote: > > The course is HTML. Mouse button operations should be close, >> a window that gives a simple file directory and a text editor that >> doesn't require learning a character command set would be the >> target. >> > > > Hi Chris, > > Maybe look at using Xfce, which is a lightweight window manager based on > GTK+ and is available in the ports tree and as a package (from the machine > specs, I assume you'll be installing packages). The theme you use for it > will impact performance as well, but the default should be fine. > > For text-editing you can try Mousepad ( > http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/) and Thunar ( > http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/) for file management > > I agree xfce is a good choice. Another thing you may wish to consider is a IDE to develop in. As someone already mentioned, learning vi is invaluable, but sometimes a gui editor is better suited to the task. My newest favorite is Netbeans. It's compatible with a host of different programming and markup languages including html. This will give you a nice gui with syntax highlighting and many other useful features. Most could also be found on vi/vim, but I suspect your students will have an easier time on Netbeans. It wouldn't be snappy on the hardware you mentioned but should be useable. Hopefully you have a better system to build packages on. -- Adam Vande More
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