Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II) - Openoffice packages

2009-06-20 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 at 10:02:47 +0300, Manolis Kiagias said: > Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > > > > > I would vote for including openoffice, it takes much longer to compile > > than to download, or maybe make the package and any dependencies that > > are not already included available as a separat

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Randall Wood
> > First I want to say thank you. This is very welcome for my older slow > laptop. > I'll second the thanks. Believe it or not I've got a great laptop still up and running: a PIII running an earlier version of SuSE Linux (PIII, 128M RAM, 555Mhz processor). When I bought it in 2000 it was the

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:37:44 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> Sure. I am making a list of what people would like to see included, >> and will add most of them in the next iteration. Small utilities like >> this are not a problem. >> > > Until someone jumps in a

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:37:44 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Sure. I am making a list of what people would like to see included, > and will add most of them in the next iteration. Small utilities like > this are not a problem. Until someone jumps in and asks for Emacs, I guess :grin: Good job wi

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Robert wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:37:44 +0300 > > First I want to say thank you. This is very welcome for my older slow > laptop. > > That said. Have you considered Claws-Mail? > > Robert > Claws-Mail is good. It can also use the address book in jpilot, which

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Robert
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:37:44 +0300 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Andrew Gould wrote: > > 2009/6/16 Manolis Kiagias : > > > > > > List of main packages > > == > > > > This is a comprehensive list of packages included in the ISO: > > > > abiword, archivers (zip, unzip, rar, unrar) bash, blue

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Robert wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:37:44 +0300 > Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > >> Andrew Gould wrote: >> >>> 2009/6/16 Manolis Kiagias : >>> >>> >>> List of main packages >>> == >>> >>> This is a comprehensive list of packages included in the ISO: >>> >>> abiword, archivers (z

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Andrew Gould wrote: >> 2009/6/16 Manolis Kiagias : >> >> >> List of main packages >> == >> >> This is a comprehensive list of packages included in the ISO: >> >> abiword, archivers (zip, unzip, rar, unrar) bash, bluefish, cdrtool

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Andrew Gould wrote: > 2009/6/16 Manolis Kiagias : > > > List of main packages > == > > This is a comprehensive list of packages included in the ISO: > > abiword, archivers (zip, unzip, rar, unrar) bash, bluefish, cdrtools, > dvd+rw-tools, evince, firefox3, gimp, gnash, gnumeric, gnupg,

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Andrew Gould
2009/6/16 Manolis Kiagias : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey all, > > List of main packages > == > > This is a comprehensive list of packages included in the ISO: > > abiword, archivers (zip, unzip, rar, unrar) bash, bluefish, cdrtools, > dvd+rw-tools, evince

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II) - Openoffice packages

2009-06-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > > I would vote for including openoffice, it takes much longer to compile > than to download, or maybe make the package and any dependencies that > are not already included available as a separate tarball. > I've implemented this neat idea, the tarball is here: http://f

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >>> I will start preparing a server ISO (CD sized) soon. I also welcome >>> all ideas on what to include/exclude in later versions of this DVD. >>> It has been suggested to include openoffice packages as abiword / >>> gnumeric don't cut it for many people. This will increase

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-16 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
>> I will start preparing a server ISO (CD sized) soon. I also welcome >> all ideas on what to include/exclude in later versions of this DVD. >> It has been suggested to include openoffice packages as abiword / >> gnumeric don't cut it for many people. This will increase the size of >> the download

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Hey all, > > This is a continuation of the effort that started with this post: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-May/198284.html > > This little project also found its way to Distrowatch Weekly news > (Thanks!): > > http

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Manolis Kiagias wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, This is a continuation of the effort that started with this post: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-May/198284.html This little project also found its way to Distrowatch Weekly news (Thanks!)

Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, This is a continuation of the effort that started with this post: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-May/198284.html This little project also found its way to Distrowatch Weekly news (Thanks!): http://distrowatch.com