From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 7: 1:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F0937B56B for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 07:01:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-184-028.charm.net [162.33.184.28]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14322; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:01:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38D8E02B.D03551E7@charm.net> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:00:59 -0500 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nell Colucci Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Requirements References: <38D8D3A7.2BA3C8AA@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nell Colucci wrote: > > Hi. I'm a novice to Unix and am in the midst of purchasing copy of > FreeBSD. I want to buy a used computer to load FreeBSD and experiment/ > learn. Budget is an issue. What, therefore, are the minimum hardware > requirements to run version 4.0? > > Thanks. I run FreeBSD-3.2 on my home machine which has the following; Shuttle HOT-433 486dx2-100 w/ 32mb ram (a 1994 bios) 2 IDE hard drives; 1gig and 170mb and a slow CD-ROM 5.25 and 3.5" floppy drives Zoom 56k fax/modem -- the best for me and ppp never barfed using it. Diamond SpeedStar 64 2mb -- fine as a X11 console, get newer video. NEC MultiSync 3V -- a good monitor for any OS No Sound because the windoze box makes enough noise for all three machines, FreeBSD, Corel Linux, Windoze. Sound for the BSD box? I may get a Sound Blaster 16 some day. My opinion is, simple is better when sound cards are involved. For learning this configuration has a couple of problems. (1) It has been supported for many releases, not much is going to go wrong. (2) If used as a desktop your patience will be tried if you use cpu hog software like I do. For example, I have KDE then I throw Netscape and Gimp on top of it. I am moving to a K-6 processor for that reason. The 486-100 will become a router or a data server. In short - think of the end use then select the right hardware. Go to XFree86.org & FreeBSD.org and get a hardware list. Might want to try this; www.google.com and a search string, "freebsd hardware" "xfree86 hardware" or something like that. -d -- +---------------------------------------------------+ | Stuff n. -trappings, essence, junk, things, gear | +---------------------------------------------------+ | http://www.charm.net/~dutch | | http://www.charm.net/~dutch/pgp/pub-dutch-key.txt | | keyring -- http://not-defined-today-maybe-never | +---------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message