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collection. Many new users expect to find these kinds of |
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collection. Many new users expect to find these kinds of |
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applications on their desktop. This chapter will show you how |
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either from their packages or from the ports collection.</para> |
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either from their packages or from the Ports Collection.</para> |
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<para>Note that when installing programs from the ports, they are |
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compiled from source. This can take a very long time, depending |
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on what you are compiling and the processing power of your |
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machine(s). If building from source takes a prohibitively long |
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amount of time for you, you can install most of the programs of |
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the ports collection from pre-built packages.</para> |
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the Ports Collection from pre-built packages.</para> |
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<para>As FreeBSD features Linux binary compatibility, many |
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applications originally developed for Linux are available for |
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<para>FreeBSD does not come with a particular browser |
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<ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/www.html">www</ulink> |
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directory of the ports collection contains a lot of browsers |
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ready to be installed. If you do not have time to compile |
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everything (this can take a very long time in some cases) many |
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of them are available as packages.</para> |
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how to set up these complete desktops.</para> |
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how to set up these complete desktops.</para> |
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<primary><application>Netscape</application></primary> |
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<para>The ports collection contains several versions of the |
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&netscape; browser. Since the native FreeBSD ones contain a |
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&netscape; browser. Since the native FreeBSD ones contain a |
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serious security bug, installing them is strongly |
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discouraged. Instead, use a more recent Linux or DIGITAL UNIX |
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<para>The latest stable release of the &netscape; browser is |
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<ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/graphics.html">graphics</ulink> |
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