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Revision as of 19:26, 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, dillo
Note that the latest version of Firefox in ports is 1.0.7 -- the latest release -- but that the latest package is 1.0.3, which is out of date and has had a few vulnerabilities announced for it. You can install it via pkg_add -r and then compile it while you use the older version.
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)
