> > 1.  Word processor?
emacs and latex.  As far as I'm concerned, its faster and easier than the
GUI type wordprocessors for the stuff I do (lots of equations).  Plus,
I've found it extremely nice to have 'make' manage a large latex document
(re process the files which have changed including re-exporting my figures
to postscript as needed). 

> > 2.  Spread sheet?
don't use one these days.  I used to use spreadsheets for plotting stuff,
but now I either use 'graph' (part of the GNU plotutils package) for quick
stuff or 'scilab' (also in the package system) for more serious stuff.

> > 4.  Browser?
lynx a lot.  Netscape on i386 and sparc.

> > 5.  misc?
I think 'tgif' is a top notch 2-D drawing program.  I do engineering work
and use tgif for drawing high quality block diagrams and also schematics
for technical documents.  I've used a handful of other Mac and Windows
drawing programs and tgif is by far my favorite.  Among other things, it
has the ability to export postscript from the command line so I can have
'make' manage all the tgif drawings which are to  be included in a large
latex docuemnt.  You can also embed latex equations in it which has been
extremely nice for the types of diagrams I end up making.

If you've used Matlab before, then 'scilab' is very easy to pick up and it
offers similar capability.  I use scilab a lot both on NetBSD and solaris
boxes for engineering work.

I use the cad/spice package from time to time (in fact there are circuits
in production which were analyzed on my MacIIci running NetBSD).

The other thing I tend to do a lot is system level simulations which are
done with custom C code.  NetBSD has a great programming environment for
that.  Once again, the output is often times plotted by 'scilab'.


I guess thats probably 90% of what I do under NetBSD.  

oh yeah, I also use pine for email...

-Dan