From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 1 17:14:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C20B1065687 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:14:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from honeysuckle.london.02.net (honeysuckle.london.02.net [87.194.255.144]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE50C8FC1B for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:14:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.75] (93.97.24.219) by honeysuckle.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 497A2AF001D9488D; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:16:47 +0100 Message-ID: <49D0015F.1010607@onetel.com> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:16:47 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <49C98507.6040905@gwi.net> <20090325034317.160b149d.freebsd@edvax.de> <49C99E1C.9090303@gwi.net> <20090325041118.5c99710a.freebsd@edvax.de> <49C9A572.3070006@gwi.net> <20090325045911.56efaff6.freebsd@edvax.de> <49CC1230.8060005@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Energy use (was installing freebsd on windows) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:14:42 -0000 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of >> months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. >> On reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have >> done an excellent job > > of course. windows vista runs well too on overmuscled hardware. > > Just i don't understand the idea of wasting the power of good hardware > just to waste. Ok this is getting a bit OT but I would like to say it as I think it is something that we should be having a lot of discussion about. There is a further reason for using PCBSD which is energy consumption. My computer used to run for hours even days upgrading the base system and my desktop ports. Now it's all done once (well more than once for testing but you get the point I hope). And fairly new hardware can be more energy efficient than quite old hardware. There is of course freebsd-update which sounds great though I haven't used it, and pkg_add, but I generally found upgrading ports (with portmanager - my plug) gave better results. Chris > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >