[MLB-WIRELESS] Help setting up FreeBSD

[Brendan Hiley]

Good luck :)

Although OpenOffice will compile on freebsd (and take a huge amount of disk
space and time to do it) it doesn't quite work properly yet.

StarOffice 5.2.1 is still your best bet at a semi-decent office package on a
UNIX-like machine.

And the only thing I've seen that would have a shot at importing outlook
data would be Ximian Evolution which is currently Linux only. I haven't
heard of anyone using it on FreeBSD with Linux emulation, but it may be
possible.

-ProFX

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Healy" <jimmy at deefa.com>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 5:10 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Help setting up FreeBSD


> Hi guys..
>
> Some sad news - I'm moving to Sydney for 6 months for work. *collective
> groan* :-)
>
> But anyhoo, besides spying on the enemy(!), I'm keen to use it as a
> chance to start a fresh, and ween myself off my ugly commercial OS. I'll
> be free on the weekend of the 27th and 28th of July, and was wondering
> if there was anyone around who might want to exchange help setting up a
> FreeBSD boxen in exchange for food :-P
>
> Will be a Desktop Cellery 500, with 64meg RAM, 32x burner, enterasys
> card in a ricoh cradle, Geforce2MX, and 20gig HD.
>
> I want to try and set it up to run as a wireless node, with nocat auth,
> as well as other apps to ween myself of windows. Ie. OpenOffice,
> mozilla, apahce and php, and a nifty email program (one where I can
> import all my current mail from outlook..)
>
> Also, clear explanations on the day of the directory structure, and
> where l33+ people put things in the file system would be nice :-)
>
> Any takers??
>
> James
>
> PS. Don't troll the list re: OS's, Mail clients, or correct ways of
> organising the filesystem! All comments welcome if sent to me however!
>
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