From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 22 1:33:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F2F37BB9D for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 01:33:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4M975913434; Mon, 22 May 2000 02:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 02:07:05 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Xavier Tachyon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimization Message-ID: <20000522020704.O28097@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <004901bfc3c3$69978540$010c0684@MID> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <004901bfc3c3$69978540$010c0684@MID>; from tachyonx@thehelm.com on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:56:54PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Xavier Tachyon [000522 01:33] wrote: > I am very interested in using FreeBSD on my network as a replacement > for Win2k and Win NT 4.0. I have found that the Windows environments > are full of superfluous functions and services. What I need to > know is if there is a FreeBSD port that is optimised for i586 or > i686 (preferably the latter). Please wrap lines at 70 characters. Once FreeBSD is installed you can "make world" (rebuild the system from source) using compiler flags to optimize for your particular platform. see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message