From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 17:23:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8428A37B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from fe.up.pt (relay2.fe.up.pt [193.136.28.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE5BC43F75 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:23:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from miguelg@gnomo.fe.up.pt) Received: from lorosae.fe.up.pt (root@lorosae.fe.up.pt [193.136.28.35]) by fe.up.pt (8.12.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h2R1OSkC004564 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:24:28 GMT Received: from gnomo.fe.up.pt (root@gnomo.fe.up.pt [193.136.28.132]) by lorosae.fe.up.pt (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2R1NB4V011632 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:23:11 GMT Received: from localhost (miguelg@localhost) by gnomo.fe.up.pt (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h2R1NBE04285 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:23:11 GMT Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:23:11 +0000 (WET) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Gon=E7alves?= To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-ng (Milter interface) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=USER_AGENT_PINE autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Suggestions for FreeBSD workstation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:23:17 -0000 Hello FreeBSDers! I am about to build a new box to keep at home to do some digital photo editing, write some documents with LaTeX and listen to some music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Audio CDs). I selected this hardware and I was hoping to get some feedback from you on items that might have problems with FreeBSD 4.7 and the new 4.8. Anyway here it is: - ASUS A7S333 motherboard - AMD XP 2000+ - Titan D5TB-TC Socket A/FCPGA - 3 x DDR 512 MB PC333 - Western Digital 80GB 80/72/100 800JB 8MB Cache - CDRW LG 8481B 48x24x48x IDE - Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 NIC - Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop - 19" Sony CPD-E450 - XFX Riva TNT 32MB AGP - Sound Blaster Live 4.1 Creative OEM My doubts regarding this configuration are related to the Sound Blaster Live support. BTW, with 1.5 GB of RAM can I mount the /usr/src and /usr/obj in a MFS to speed up 'world' compilation? Please reply to me as I am not on the list due to incoming mailbox limits. Best regards, Miguel Goncalves