Recommended applications

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, mutt, sylpheed

Multimedia

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

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

CD burning

X-CDRoast, k3b, cdrtools [burncd]

Productivity

OpenOffice.org