From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 6 12:24:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out.visi.com (kauket.visi.com [209.98.98.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D67A37C134 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfb@visi.com) Received: from isis.visi.com (isis.visi.com [209.98.98.8]) by mail-out.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E7CB37DB for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:23:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jfb@localhost) by isis.visi.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10777 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:23:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:23:49 -0500 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: New system for FreeBSD -- pls advise Message-ID: <20000706142349.I1936@visi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, all, I'm looking at getting a brand new box at home, and want to make sure that I don't end up with components that will preclude me from using my OS of choice. Currently, my hardware selections are as follows: AMD Athlon Thunderbird (950mhz) Asus A7M motherboard (as yet unreleased) 512mb PC-133 ram (2x 256mb) Voodoo5 5500 video 3Com 3c905b ethernet Soundblaster Platinum Live sound card Plextor EIDE CD-R For the most part, this box'll be running postgres, emacs, and perhaps several apache instances when I'm working, and will boot into some filthy MICROS~1 gulag when I need to blow off a little steam playing games. I've never put intel hardware together before, so any pointers from a FreeBSD perspective would be welcome. Thanks in advance, (jfb) -- What a puny plan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message