Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:54:11 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke <jahnke@fmjassoc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: some advice needed to considering to move my w2k machine into a freebsd workstation. Message-ID: <1098838451.613.31.camel@localhost>
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I'd suggest leaving your Windows machine (and all the software you use) in tact, and play with FreeBSD on the side until you are comfortable enough with it to use it full time. You may like it (most do), but you may not. There are two ways I would proceed. One is to get a live FreeBSD CD (Freesbie) and play around with it. The other would be to make your system dual-boot. That is, you can select either FreeBSD or Windows at boot time. That way you can have the benefits of both environments (though not at the same time). I'd recommend you buy a second hard drive -- 40 MB is fine to get going -- and install FreeBSD on that. Drives are cheap right now; I've seen decent 40 GB drives for $30 or so. Download the ISOs from FreeBSD.org onto the new disk, and have at it! You may find that you need to keep windows around, because as you mention there are sites where you really need IE. Otherwise, I find there are no limitations on the FreeBSD desktop, though I'm not big into multimedia. FWIW, that's how I got started on FreeBSD -- an inexpensive secondary disk on a PIII/dual boot. I liked it well enough that when I put together my dual Athlon workstation I used FreeBSD as the only OS. I like it. Frank
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