Very Computer

by **Average Jo** » Sat, 10 May 2003 14:41:09

I'm putting togther a solaris home computer, I am going to use it for
a little development with Sun's java IDE

I also wanted to experiment with using it for my regular computing

can you reccomend applications for:

1) email
2) usenet (Pan?, I have used this on linux)
3) web browsing
4) word processing (quess this would be star office)
5) simple web publishing/development (I use Frontpage now)

Thanks

by **Paul Floy** » Sat, 10 May 2003 15:24:50

On Fri, 09 May 2003 01:41:09 -0400, Average Joe

Quote:> I'm putting togther a solaris home computer, I am going to use it for
> a little development with Sun's java IDE

> I also wanted to experiment with using it for my regular computing

> can you reccomend applications for:

> 1) email

I use mozilla, but there are tons available.

Quote:> 2) usenet (Pan?, I have used this on linux)

slrn, again, tons available

Quote:> 3) web browsing

Mozilla. The only other game in town is Netscape, or an oldish version
of M$ Internet Exploder (SPARC only of course).

Quote:> 4) word processing (quess this would be star office)

There are a few other possibilities like lyx, applix.

Quote:> 5) simple web publishing/development (I use Frontpage now)

xemacs

A bientot
Paul
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by **Rich Tee** » Sun, 11 May 2003 01:51:24

> I also wanted to experiment with using it for my regular computing

I use a Sun/Solaris combo for all my computing needs,
bar one (book keeping).

Quote:> can you reccomend applications for:

> 1) email
> 2) usenet (Pan?, I have used this on linux)

I use Pine for email & Usenet.

Quote:> 3) web browsing

Netscape.

Quote:> 4) word processing (quess this would be star office)

StarOffice, or my preferred method: vi & groff.

Quote:> 5) simple web publishing/development (I use Frontpage now)

vi.

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by **Barbie LeVil** » Sun, 11 May 2003 02:03:49

On 9 May 2003 06:24:50 GMT

> On Fri, 09 May 2003 01:41:09 -0400, Average Joe

> > I'm putting togther a solaris home computer, I am going to use it for
> > a little development with Sun's java IDE

> > I also wanted to experiment with using it for my regular computing

> > can you reccomend applications for:

> > 1) email

> I use mozilla, but there are tons available.

sylpheed-clwas

Quote:
> > 2) usenet (Pan?, I have used this on linux)

> slrn, again, tons available

sylpheed-claws

Quote:
> > 3) web browsing

> Mozilla. The only other game in town is Netscape, or an oldish version
> of M$ Internet Exploder (SPARC only of course).

mozilla

Quote:
> > 4) word processing (quess this would be star office)

> There are a few other possibilities like lyx, applix.

staroffice

Quote:
> > 5) simple web publishing/development (I use Frontpage now)

> xemacs

Nedit (very nice text editor) or Bluefish

and some more suggestions:
mplayer for watching most movies.
ogle for dvd watching
gimp for image manipulation
rox as file manager
rxvt as terminal emulation
xchat for irc
licq for icq
xmms for playing audiofiles
Acrobat reader for pdf files
SunForum for netmeeting needs

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I have seen things you lusers would not believe.
I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
Time to die.

by **Oscar del Ri** » Sun, 11 May 2003 02:13:11

Quote:> can you reccomend applications for:

> 1) email
> 2) usenet (Pan?, I have used this on linux)
> 3) web browsing
> 4) word processing (quess this would be star office)
> 5) simple web publishing/development (I use Frontpage now)

Netscape 7 or Mozilla can do all of the above except perhaps 4.
Although if you do all your word processing in HTML then that's
all you need. :-)