From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 01:57:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC24106566C for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 01:57:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA308FC0A for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 01:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o411v9iE056566 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20100501015705.GA46858@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, GUARANTEED_100_PERCENT,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on ethic.thought.org Cc: Subject: ziz a dumb question? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 01:57:14 -0000 i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. still, getting-real, i checked out the power stats for the various chipsets. right now, everybody is racing for efficiency. not here yet. i'm thinking of buying another dell dual-core and using it as a backup Sever. DNS, web, mail. also it would function as my new "tao". if the freebsd.ORG wants my present dell, 2.4ghz computer, great. i'll ship it off on my dime. what i'm wondering is:: how good is this "PC-BSD" at being a server? i mean, if it's good at being a toy [to listen to A/V STreams and other less-nerdy things], it probably can't be that solid on handling DNS ... at least not as well as FreeBSD. If anybody onlist has messed around with PC-BSD for *server* stuff, i'd be very interested in hearing about it. tia, y'all gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel