Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:13:45 +0100 From: Thomas Uhrfelt <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> To: "'Nell Colucci'" <ncolucci@home.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: SV: Hardware Requirements Message-ID: <01BF9411.3854CE20.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>
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> 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
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