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beep-media-player, xmms, [[Mplayer]], helix, realplayer, VLC
 
beep-media-player, xmms, [[Mplayer]], helix, realplayer, VLC
  
==CD burning==
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==CD burning and ripping==
  
X-CDRoast, cdrtools [burncd]
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[[X-CDRoast]], cdrtools [burncd], [[k3b]], [[grip]]
  
[http://www.k3b.org/ K3b - CD/DVD Kreator for KDE]. GPL 2 licensed. Features include:
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If you get any errors along the lines of "can't access /dev/acd0" from one of your CD reading/writing applications, your problem is probably the permissions on /dev/acd0 (or whatever your device is). A quick
 
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chmod 644 /dev/acd0
* Supports CD-R(W), DVD-R(W), and DVD+R(W)
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will probably fix it.
* Creating data, audio, mixed mode, CD-i, and Video CDs -- DVD data projects, too.
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* CD/DVD ripping and cloning
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* Supports image burning (ISO and CUE/BIN) to CD or DVD recordable media.
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* Optional verification of written data for any and all burn modes, projects, and supported recordable media.
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* [http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/dcop.html DCOP interface], allowing K3b to be controlled from another program or script. ''(not yet available in the stable branch as of 22 May 2005)''
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* More details on the project's [http://k3b.plainblack.com/about About page].
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==Productivity==
 
==Productivity==

Revision as of 19:23, 3 October 2005

Contents

Setting up a workstation

See our Complete_Workstation write-up on how to get a desktop system up and running.

Installation

You can get these by Installing ports or by Installing packages

Web Browsing

Firefox, Mozilla, links, lynx

Email

Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail, mutt, sylpheed, pine

Multimedia

Note that to get sound working under FreeBSD, you'll need to enable your sound card

beep-media-player, xmms, Mplayer, helix, realplayer, VLC

CD burning and ripping

X-CDRoast, cdrtools [burncd], k3b, grip

If you get any errors along the lines of "can't access /dev/acd0" from one of your CD reading/writing applications, your problem is probably the permissions on /dev/acd0 (or whatever your device is). A quick

chmod 644 /dev/acd0

will probably fix it.

Productivity

OpenOffice.org, AbiWord (No Java Required)

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