From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 30 11:23:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED9737B5FB for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 11:23:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA56CA; Tue, 30 May 2000 11:24:40 -0700 Message-ID: <3934069B.81AF8A12@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:21:15 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Young Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re using a 486 References: <035f01bfca4a$236ed540$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Young wrote: > > Who needs X on a gateway box ?? > > > I managed to run 2.2.8-stable on an old 486 with 16 Mb of RAM. However, > > it wasn't really faste (with X loaded). Since you'd like to use it as an > > Internet appliance or sort of, I'd definitely recommend to at least > > install 64 Mb of RAM and a good video card. It might not be exclusively a gateway. A lot of internet appliances are for browsing and messaging, not for serving or routing. Some people, myself included, only have a single computer. We can't afford dedicated firewall boxen If you only have one computer, then your gateway is also your desktop is also your development box is also your game machine. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message