Recommended applications
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| − | X-CDRoast, cdrtools [burncd] | + | [[X-CDRoast]], cdrtools [burncd], [[k3b]], [[grip]] |
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==Productivity== | ==Productivity== | ||
Revision as of 20:23, 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
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)
