Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:31:53 -0400 From: Jian Guang Xu <jianguang.xu@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: some advice needed to considering to move my w2k machine into a freebsd workstation. Message-ID: <274e8bdc041026133120a464ff@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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