From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 14 18:24:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 669B3405B for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:24:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA04266; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:52:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:52:55 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brooks Davis Cc: David Scheidt , Troy Settle , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000214185255.E17536@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000214165644.B7643@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <20000214181815.B15442@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000214181815.B15442@orion.ac.hmc.edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 06:18:15PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Brooks Davis [000214 18:46] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 07:49:12PM -0600, David Scheidt wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > > > I assume that GUI think was dtedit or something like it. My first rule > > > of surviving Solaris is don't run CDE. In fact, don't run CDE is > > > probably my first three rules. ;-) Infact, if the box has work to do, > > > running X is generally a bad idea without tons of RAM. I've seen the X > > > server hit more then 150MB on my Ultra 10. Add that to netscape and > > > staroffice with a powerpoint presentation open and you'll swap a 256MB > > > system to death. > > > > Of course, I have had a Sun fall over with repeatable panics because the > > text console on CGSIX Framebuffer couldn't keep up with it's messages.o > > > > I do hompe they have fixed that by now. > > Probalby not. ;-) I'd just run it headless, the serial port is one > thing they seem to have done right. uh you mean where it misinterprets disconnect as break? lovely... -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message