Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 06:22:13AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:00:28 -0800 (PST) Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com replied: Does it include a thesaurus? Until at least recently there was no English (American) language thesaurus. BTW, have fun with the 'extensions'. I have seen grown men cry trying to get them installed correctly in FreeBSD; much less get them to work correctly. If you have any other word processor available, irregardless of OS, I would strongly recommend using it. I use Softmaker Office; the Linux binary works fine on FreeBSD. It's closed source and you've got to pay for it, which turns most people off. But if you can get past those two characteristics, it's a wonderful office suite, and the word processor has both dictionary and thesaurus. It's furthermore extremely fast, especially compared to OO.o. www.softmaker.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Live CD
Greetings - I've got a new Netbook I'm itching to install FreeBSD on, and would prefer to avoid hassles by testing out the hardware with a LiveCD first. FreeSBIE seemed like an appropriate choice, but the website is out of commission, and what I read on the web seems to indicate the project is no longer maintained. There's the FreeBSD Live CD project, run by a Brazilian users' group, but it looks more complicated than I'd prefer. And I just discovered, through a posting on the Daemon Forums, the RoFreeSBIE project, run by some Romanians. Where to start? I'm aware of the FreeBSD integrated fixit mode, but that's not what I'm looking for. I am looking for the FreeBSD equivalent of Knoppix Linux, which will run a graphical desktop and give me an idea if FreeBSD can work with my Atom dual core processor, Intel onboard NIC and Wireless, the dinky little webcam, and so on, even hardware that I wouldn't be able to identify by name in order to search the web for info. Has anybody had good or bad experiences with any of the above methods? A search of recent posts from this mailing list turned up precious little, and the RoFreeSBIE site looks very interesting. That's probably where I would start, but like I said, I'm curious to see if anyone on this list has had experience and would like to make recommendations. Otherwise, I'll let you know how it goes! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: netbooks for freebsd?
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11:20PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Al Plant wrote: Jeff Hamann wrote: I would like to try some experimental software on a netbook. Can somebody recommend a netbook that can do FreeBSD. Too soon to know, but I've just ordered the Starling, a netbook sold by System76.com. They ship it with Ubuntu, and that means it may well run other *nixes as well. I've got a copy of PC-BSD I'm excited to try to load on it, since I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu in general. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Trying to Install Man Page
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:59:43PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: There is a test man page I am trying to install and the system is not finding it. I put it in /usr/local/man/man1 and think I should at least get complaints about the page as it is the start of a man page, not the whole thing. I named it testpage, compressed it with gzip and when I type man testpage, it just says that there is no manual entry for testpage. Is there a data base I forgot to remake after adding the page? I did make sure the ownership and permissions are the same as other pages in the directory. I also did a man on one of the other pages in that same directory and it came right up. Thank you. Martin McCormick Yes, the program is mandb I think. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Opera in your repos
There are no issues I'm aware of, that's specific to the FreeBSD/Opera combination (no flash support is an issue with Adobe, not Opera and I got one bugreport in the queue, that I'm also not sure is FreeBSD specific, more built-in torrent application specific). -- No problems here - it's my browser of choice on FreeBSD, and it hasn't given me any trouble at all. Congrats. -- http://www.therandymon.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:53:22AM +0200, Wolfgang Riegler wrote: Has anyone tested Arora? I'm actually surprised no one has recommended Konqueror. It's not my favorite browser (I happen to love Opera) but it would seem to mostly fit the bill of fast, graphical. One trick it does that I appreciate is assigning a letter to every link. When you hold down the control key, the letters appear and you can navigate just by pressing control and a letter key. Konqueror certainly has its detractors though, so I guess it's a matter of taste. Happy hunting. -- http://www.therandymon.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mutt with muttprofile and GnuPG-Support
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:53:47 -0500, Doug Poland d...@polands.org said: On Tue, July 28, 2009 11:49, Christian Grube wrote: Hi, I was wondering, why there is no IMAP/SMTP-Support in mutt or mutt-devel. I have had mutt-ng and muttprofile on my debianbox and it works like a charm. Is there a small hint for me to provide the same functionality under FreeBSD 8? I've been using mutt-devel for years with IAMP support. A quick look at the Makefile leads me to believe IMAP support is built in and not a configurable knob. -- Regards, Doug IMAP support is AT LEAST in mutt-devel and probably in mutt as well, and has been since the 1.3 days (2003 or so). As for SMTP support, that appeared around 1.5.17 I think (about a year ago); you might have to use mutt-devel for it. That said, I find mutt-devel to be as stable as I could hope for and never seem to have any problems with it, unlike some devel packages that can be flaky. I think if you type mutt -v at the prompt, it will show you which options were compiled in. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: MS Project file viewer
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:12:35AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Is there any MS Project (mpp) file viewer which runs on FreeBSD? Thx matthias My company uses Steelray Viewer at the office; to my great surprise there is a Linux version available, which makes me think it might run on FreeBSD. There's a trial version you can use to determine compatibility. For what it's worth, the product works well - they license the tech from Microsoft so they have full access to the specification. But it is not free-as-in-beer. -- http://www.therandymon.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freeBSD logo
On Thursday 25 June 2009 05:16:12 pm Peter Giessel wrote: I want to make a t-shirt with the caption The Power to Serve but I can't find it in a good resolution. Can you send it to me? Vector formats (which would allow you to produce any resolution you want) are available here: http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html Isn't there some sort of restriction on how the logo can be used? I wrote a +post for my website about FreeBSD (PC-BSD, actually) and went looking for the +FreeBSD. I recall there some restrictions on Daemon. Or are those days over? One of my favorite looking mascots, by the way. What a cutie. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freeBSD logo
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:16:12AM -0800, Peter Giessel wrote: I want to make a t-shirt with the caption The Power to Serve but I can't find it in a good resolution. Can you send it to me? Vector formats (which would allow you to produce any resolution you want) are available here: http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html Isn't there some sort of restriction on how the logo can be used? I wrote a post for my website about FreeBSD (PC-BSD, actually) and went looking for the FreeBSD. I recall there some restrictions on Daemon. Or are those days over? One of my favorite looking mascots, by the way. What a cutie. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)
First I want to say thank you. This is very welcome for my older slow laptop. I'll second the thanks. Believe it or not I've got a great laptop still up and running: a PIII running an earlier version of SuSE Linux (PIII, 128M RAM, 555Mhz processor). When I bought it in 2000 it was the state of the art. Now I find the internet forums choked with people complaining about their old Pentium Ms and IVs and similar. Most people have no idea a 9 year old laptop can do everything you want it to do. I'll give the XFCE ISO a spin, since modern KDE or Gnome set ups tend to sink it. Thanks for the hard work! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
