From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 30 12:52:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9570937B552 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 12:52:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9DF4310DD; Tue, 30 May 2000 15:52:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA14799; Tue, 30 May 2000 15:07:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:07:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good To: David Johnson Cc: Doug Young , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re using a 486 In-Reply-To: <3934069B.81AF8A12@acuson.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 30 May 2000, David Johnson wrote: > 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 Hey David and Doug, I just got a pentium 166 w/ 32M RAM for $200 US from a vendor of used machines. Check the papers for used boxes. The pace of technological change makes good hdwe accessible. And: the hdwe is usually well supported. Unlike a buddy of mine who is struggling with an ATI Rage 2000 Expert card - it has 32M of RAM but no official X support. :-( BTW, I run 3.4 on an i486 with bad uarts (16450s), very low RAM (12M) and limited swap due to the small hdd. I also run X. It runs ok. Netscape is a dog on this machine but so what? I could always get something faster...if netscape is that important. Fact is, I like not throwing out my old machine --- it does its job which is to be a mail server. And Doug here helped me get sendmail and ppp happy on it with his Pedantic FreeBSD page. Later gents, Tom ------- North Richmond Community Mental Health Center ------- Thomas Good MIS Coordinator Vital Signs: tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 /* Member: Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message