From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 20:31:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797D516A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:31:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24AD243D41 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:31:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jianguang.xu@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 65so255744wri for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:31:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fjXc6uweZHqXupUT8prE7Y7Gvm1RjHV9o52agVX9Ng8P3e4GlbArtsmBpp599DEo9QtTbEfg5YNNBRgb3C4INqfrFlSvDAxlmx2aG9gVJiST96rQ2FBIU/cr58eIcg0dlm1SY3pwvmQ/m1hoD2xJu9s1SJZJ8okqoTIZVpqkjLM= Received: by 10.38.218.39 with SMTP id q39mr497908rng; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.102.16 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <274e8bdc041026133120a464ff@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:31:53 -0400 From: Jian Guang Xu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: some advice needed to considering to move my w2k machine into a freebsd workstation. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jian Guang Xu List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:31:55 -0000 My current system follows: AMD Athlon 1600+, 1 Gigabytes RAM, 40 Giga harddrive, GeForce 2 with 32 Mb, AC97 Onboard Audio Adaptor, D-Link DFE-538TX. The system got follow applications: W2K Workstation Professional runs very smooth right now. Firefox 1.0 for most of the web surfing. IE occasionally but nessary for some of the website I need to go to due to personally reason. Thunderbird for me email and newsgroup reading. VMWare to testing FreeBSD. ACT! 2005 as a CRM software(personal organizor as well) but I'm trying to move to a internet application via www.freecrm.com OpenOffice currently runs in my system with MS Office removed. Acrobat 5.0 for form editing(Occasionally) MusicMatch for online radio (all the time) Realplayer for DVD/Movie(Occasionally) I have online conference calls using MS Media Player Plugin which is very important for me. Zonealarm as my firewall, Norton Antirus. I'm using a home network connected to Rogers High Speed via DHCP protocol, another machine is a XP laptop. My job is in Marketing field so I do need the system to be robust and more productivity. At the same time, I have the dream to play OS around and hack into the system at my spare time. To be honest, I'm pretty happy with my current system with all the feature I specified. Is there anybody could point out a way to play FreeBSD around and at the same time, I could perform my job easily? As I said, I need the Media Player plug in a lot, and any suggestion for a CRM software under BSD would be much appreciated. I gotta be very careful to change a system. I thank you for reading my nonsense post and hoping that if somebody could give me some advice. JX