From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 24 21:47:31 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id VAA02630 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:47:31 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA02624 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:47:30 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA00180; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:47:20 -0800 To: lix@cs.pdx.edu (xiaoyin li) cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: from PSU bookstore In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jan 95 16:34:32 PST." <199501250034.QAA24455@cs.pdx.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:47:20 -0800 Message-ID: <179.791012840@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 1. If I am going to run FreeBSD under a PC 486DX and install the X11 > utilities, what are minimum hardware requirments for PC? > Are 16MB RAM and 700MB hard drive enough? More than enough, yes. Minimal requirements would be more like 200MB and 8MB of RAM. > 2. Do I need to buy special graphic interface on PC to run the X window > under FreeBSD? You can run X on pretty much any standard graphics card these days, but I would recommend one of the higher-end cards from #9 or ATI. Performance is correspondingly better. > 3. Where can we purchase X11 software? It comes free with FreeBSD. > 4. Can I access xmosaic (WWW) from that PC after I have X11 running on it? Yes. You can use mosaic, chimera or a number of other freely available clients. Jordan