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Subject: Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!
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Brian wrote:

>Lots of ram is they all have at least 512mb.
>  
>
That *is* enough. =) I didn't have problems at 512mb, so far...

>I should take "Secure" out of there I'm fairly well up on FreeBSD Security
>and all boxes are behind a well maintained FreeBSD Router/Firewall.
>
>I have all those books :)
>  
>

I don't have too much experience running servers on FreeBSD (my local 
server/gateway runs NetBSD for historical reasons, so to speak, and I 
like it as well), but if you have experience with FreeBSD and like it, I 
think you'll like it just as much on the desktop.
XFree/X.org can be a little nasty sometimes, but once it works, it 
mostly stays that way.
And since you have prior experience and plenty of good documentation 
available, I think you will have lots of fun. =)

Kind regards,
Benjamin