Re: About to install FreeBSD as a Desktop...

2002-09-21 Thread Bjarne Wichmann Petersen
On Saturday 21 September 2002 00:13, MET wrote: Other than that I just need some productivity apps, but nothing particularly special. S, what's the REAL difference between 4.5 and 4.6.2? Well, bugfixes for one thing, but also some added functionality (FBSD keeps improving ;)). Best

Re: About to install FreeBSD as a Desktop...

2002-09-21 Thread Bjarne Wichmann Petersen
On Saturday 21 September 2002 19:17, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Yes, I prefer mplayer. But there is VLC, Xine and Ogle as well (all in ports). I thought DVD playing required the use of patented mathematics (I know it's mathematics, even if they call it algorithms or methods or even

About to install FreeBSD as a Desktop...

2002-09-20 Thread MET
So, following up the subject, I'm getting (finally) MY OWN laptop. Not a company owned or school loaned. It's a very nice machine that is shipping with XP Pro and I CANNOT wait to get it off. So here's the problem, do I install FreeBSD 4.5-1 which is what I've been running on my servers for