While FreeBSD is popular among ISPs for its performance and stability, it is quite ready for day-to-day use as a desktop. With several thousand applications available as packages or ports, you can build a perfect desktop that suits all your needs.
Here is a quick review of all the desktop applications covered in this chapter:
| Application Name | Package Name | Ports Name |
|---|---|---|
| Opera | opera | www/opera |
| Firefox | firefox | www/firefox |
| KOffice | koffice-kde3 | editors/koffice-kde3 |
| AbiWord | abiword | editors/abiword |
| The GIMP | gimp | graphics/gimp |
| OpenOffice.org | openoffice | editors/openoffice-1.1 |
| Acrobat Reader® | acroread | print/acroread7 |
| gv | gv | print/gv |
| Xpdf | xpdf | graphics/xpdf |
| GQview | gqview | graphics/gqview |
| GnuCash | gnucash | finance/gnucash |
| Gnumeric | gnumeric | math/gnumeric |
| Abacus | abacus | deskutils/abacus |
| KMyMoney | kmymoney2 | finance/kmymoney2 |
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