[MLB-WIRELESS] Help setting up FreeBSD

[KevinL]

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Incidentally, unless your document editing requirements are pretty
full-on, I'd recommend abiword instead of openoffice - I had openoffice
on my laptop for a while, it's bloated and unstable (well, the debian
package thereof combined with my laptop is - YMMV).  AbiWord, on the
other hand, is nicely pared down - uses less memory, still does what I
need it to do.  Will also import word docs etc (although it makes a
balls-up of tables in word docs, which limits it's effectiveness).

Evolution, if you can run it, is absolutely sweet as a mail client, I
highly recommend it - particularly if you have something like a palm
pilot, where the conduits exist for contacts, todo lists, and
calendaring to keep palm in sync with evolution.  Evolution will deal
nicely with those appointment notification messages outlook sends out
when people book appointments with you - it sucks them into it's own
calendar for you, which is kinda nice, and I believe it can send out
same.

Galeon would be my pick for web browsers - based on Mozilla, but just a
tiny bit nicer :)  Oh, and install gnumeric, for spreadsheets - it can
read excell docs.
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KJL

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 22:14, Brendan Hiley wrote:
> 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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