Free BSD

[Andreas Kohn]

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 14:16, Prashant Boricha wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to know more about FreeBSD, I m very much interested in it. But 
> from what I infer it does'nt seem to be used at home. I would like to use it 
> at home for connecting to the net, watching movies, playing songs, doing 
> work in Office software.
> 
> Please tell me if I can do so using BSD.
Hi,

you can do everything you named with FreeBSD.
Internet: Many browsers like FireBird, Mozilla, Konqueror 
Watching movies: mplayer, xine
Playing songs: XMMS
Office: AbiWord, OpenOffice, KOffice, ...

These and more programs are available through the FreeBSD ports
collection, which is installed during the setup.

More information can be found in the handbook 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
for example sections 15 and 16.

Regards, 
-- 
Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn at gmx.net>