From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 1 13:48:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3906F37B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:48:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [207.200.51.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A6043E75 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:48:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA1LmEs25821; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:48:14 -0600 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gA1LmEP21866; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:48:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (electron [204.177.173.173]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA1LmBx21859; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:48:11 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3DC2F699.8050904@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 15:48:09 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "FreeBSD as a Desktop" heh, heh.... References: <01d501c281ef$436f7520$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Greetings.... > > I don't want to revisit that controversial > thread of some months ago, but I'm thinking > of dedicating a disk to FreeBSD on a machine > in my home...not as a server, but for browsing, > word processing, mail reading, etc. > > a. Will a 475 Athlon be "horse" enough? > > b. I've run FBSD on 3 servers for over > a year now, what's my best bet for getting > X and _____ up without stomping a hole > in the floor? > > c. What should I put in the _____ > in the above question? I use FreeBSD as my desktop OS on my notebook and my desktop workstation. I have nvidia cards in both - which I wouldn't suggest for a "simple" xwindows install, since the nv drivers don't work with the newer cards. I had to use the linux ones. Matrox cards work fine, and are fast enough. I also use Fluxbox for a window manager - it's small, fast, and clean. It isn't all that "pretty" though. I use Netscape and Mozilla (and Opera (linux version)), and OpenOffice. Basically, there isn't much I can't do with this. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message