From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 6:13:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nexus.plymovent.se (nexus.plymovent.se [212.247.77.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747D037BFB9 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 06:13:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) Received: from tu ([192.168.1.21]) by nexus.plymovent.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA92970; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:54:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:13:47 +0100 Message-ID: <01BF9411.3854CE20.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> From: Thomas Uhrfelt Reply-To: "thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se" To: "'Nell Colucci'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: SV: Hardware Requirements Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:13:45 +0100 Organization: PlymoVent AB X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet-e-post/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi. I'm a novice to Unix and am in the midst of purchasing copy of > FreeBSD. I want to buy a used computer to load FreeBSD and experiment/ > learn. Budget is an issue. What, therefore, are the minimum hardware > requirements to run version 4.0? Depends totally on what you are going to do with it once running. As a little example here - On one site I manage, we are using an old P100 with 32MBs of memory doing all our mailwork (for about 170 users) + proxycaching + NAT etc .. basically all the network chores. This particular box never even licks the swapfile. If you are planning a lot of fancy GUI stuff, then I would put my money on a decent graphics card and some more memory. Doing normal desktop work it's my impression (very subjective!) that you take the processing power you need under WinNT and divide it by 3 or 4. The memory you divide by 2 or 3 etc. Regards, Thomas Uhrfelt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message