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Desktop FreeBSD Part 3: Adding Software

Posted by Hemos on from the keep-throwing-it-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes " Desktop FreeBSD Part 3: Adding Software called Open For Business, covers the installation of third party applications onto FreeBSD."

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  1. Re:The Facts Are In -- No Comments == Proof! by sirket · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fact: Many user-level applications will no longer work under *BSD, and no one is working to change this. The GIMP, a Photoshop-like application, has not worked at all under *BSD since version 1.1 (sorry, too much trouble for such a small base, developers have said). OpenOffice, a Microsoft Office clone, has never worked under *BSD and never will. ("Why would we bother?" said developer Steven Andrews, an OpenOffice team lead.)

    I had a feeling the program that I use for graphics every day wasn't really the GIMP :( Oh sure it _claimed_ to be GIMP 2 but I knew it wasn't. I use to use the GIMP on Linux and I knew how it was supposed to work. It was supposed to crash every half hour and be slow as hell. This program that I am on running on my FreeBSD 5.2 desktop does not crash and is not slow :( Some day I hope the FreeBSD folks are able to break FreeBSD enough so that it runs the GIMP just like Linux.

    The same goes for OpenOffice. I'm not sure what program is really running on my FreeBSD box but it is too fast and stable to be OpenOffice. I base this on hours of experience fight^H^H^H^H^Hworking with OpenOffice on Linux.

    -sirket