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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/applications.sgml,v 1.25 2004/04/05 14:46:16 phantom Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/applications.sgml,v 1.26 2004/04/26 18:35:55 simon Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "About Applications for FreeBSD">
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;
]>
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<li><b>Internet services. </b>Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
find FreeBSD ideal, running WWW, Usenet news, FTP, Email, and other
services. Ready-to-run software like the <a
href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> web server or the Wu-ftpd
href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> web server or the ProFTPD
FTP&nbsp;server make it easy to set up a business or
community-centered ISP. Of course, with FreeBSD's unbeatable <a
href="&base;/internet.html">networking</a>, your users will enjoy
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<li><b>X Window workstation. </b>From an inexpensive X terminal to an
advanced X display, FreeBSD works quite well. Free X software (<a
href="http://www.xfree86.org/">XFree86</a>&trade;) comes with the
system. <a href="http://www.xig.com/">Xi Graphics</a> offers
accelerated X software for high-performance graphics hardware (such
as Matrox), as well as the industry standard Motif&reg; and OpenGL&reg;
libraries.</li>
href="http://x.org/">X.Org</a>&trade;) comes with the
system. <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/">nVidia</a> offers native
drivers for their high-performance graphics hardware,
and the industry standard Motif&reg; and OpenGL&reg;
libraries are supported. Both the <a
href="http://www.kde.org">KDE</a> and <a
href="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME</a> desktop environments
enjoy full support and provide office suite functionality, with
further good functionality available in the <a
href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.Org</a> and
<a href="http://www.softmaker.de/tml_en.htm">TextMaker</a>
products.</li>
<li><b>Networking. </b>From packet filtering to routing to name
service, FreeBSD can turn any PC into a Internet firewall, email
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libraries have always been easy to make and use.</li>
<li><b>Net surfing.</b> A real UNIX workstation makes a great Internet
surfboard, and the BSD version of <a
href="http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/communicator/index.html">Netscape
Navigator</a> with Java support runs on FreeBSD. Surf the web,
surfboard. FreeBSD versions of <a
href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">Firefox</a>
and <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a> are available
for serious web users. Surf the web,
publish your own web pages, read Usenet news, and send and receive
email with a FreeBSD system on your desktop.</li>