Comments on: Desktop FreeBSD

By: jim

jim — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:54:43 +0000

I gave Jedit a try, and it was a little odd. Must be something with my setup. My enter key and backspace key didn’t work at all. It crashed when I attempted to install a plugin and actually managed to crash KDE in the process, which I had never seen happen before.

I have been using the diablo-jdk, it works very nicely. I’m glad they were able to overcome the licensing issues they had with distributing Java packages before.

Also now that Opera 9 is out, Java works very well! No need to use the Linux version. I prefer to keep things native unless absolutely necessary. Now, if only there were a FreeBSD native Flash plugin.

I need to work on updating this page a little. My printing problems were solved by the fact that we now have a decent printer at work, an HP 4050N, networked and postscript-capable.

By: Numard

Numard — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:13:24 +0000

Text Editor : Jedit. TONS of plugins. Supports block vertical selections. HexEditing via a plugin.

JDK : install diablo-jdk15 - easiest thing under the sun ( ) , just works.

Multimedia : xmms-esound for small footprint winamp-like interface. For heavier stuff, gmplayer (mplayer gui interface) with as many plugins as you want to use.

Opera : www/linux-opera

Beto

By: AntonW

AntonW — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:28:47 +0000

The best investment that I’ve made has been a JetDirect 500X network print spooler with a HPDeskJet printer. Can print from any machine (Win32/FreeBSD) over ethernet to the HP inkjet with reasonable quality output.

-Anton

By: jim

jim — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:45:19 +0000

For the record, printing is a pain in the rear. Mainly because the printer I want to use has no driver or Linux support (Canon ImageCLASS D320) and speaks a proprietary protocol nobody knows. I can print to an HP LaserJet III ok, but it’s old, slow, and low quality.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:04:16 +0000

GQview is pretty much what I was looking for in a graphics viewer. I updated the page to reflect this.

By: jim

jim — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:28:07 +0000

So I tried gview (supposed to look like ACDsee) and it does not. It does an OK job, but I really would like a program that has a three-paned layout with a folder tree, file list, and image preview. GQview seems to fit the bill but I haven’t used it enough to say for sure.

Bluefish looks interesting, but I didn’t see anywhere that it does block (rectangular) selections or column-based editing. These are must-haves, unfortunately. Column-based editing is one of those things that you don’t know how great it is until you get used to it and have to go without. Upon searching some more, I may have a look at NEdit (http://www.nedit.org/) to see if it’s any farther along than Kate.

By: pod

pod — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:14:49 +0000

Text editor: Bluefish is fairly decent. I use it for PHP/ HTML/ JS.

Here are my personal choices for multimedia applications:

MP3 player: beep-media-player
Video: VLC

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:31:20 +0000

I know gimp has a ways to go, but for the limited things I actually need to do, it may be fine. I am mainly doing corrections and minor alterations of digital photos, layouts for printing photos, etc. I think it will do what I need, given time to learn the interface.

By: tflpz

tflpz — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:26:15 +0000

you won’t go around photoshop easily… the gimp is not that good yet… personal opinion

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:32:47 +0000

I’ll give that a try.

In the graphics editor front, I hear that Xara is releasing an open source graphics editor that is supposed to be great.