From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 09:24:45 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 1696016A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:24:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aphrodite.gwi.net (aphrodite.gwi.net [207.5.128.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F9A544001 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:24:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ah4@mlz.us) Received: from andy.gwi.net (blake.gwi.net [207.5.142.8]) by aphrodite.gwi.net (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h85GOfWB086950 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:24:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ah4@mlz.us) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <001301c373be$9e8c9660$0200a8c0@tabby> X-Homepage: http://www.nachoz.com X-PGP-Key: RSA-1024 http://www.nachoz.com/andy.pub X-System-Info-DB: PostgreSQL-7.3.3 X-System-Info-RT: rt-3-0-4 X-System-Info-WM: windowmaker-0.80.2 X-System-Info-httpd: apache-1.3.28 X-System-Info-OS: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-#0 Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:25:18 -0400 (EDT) Sender: aharriso@andy.gwi.net From: Andy Harrison To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions. 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: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:24:45 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On 05-Sep-2003, Michael Vondung wrote message "Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 4.8 or 5.1? > I have 4.8 at work, and 5 at home. I'm happier with 4.8 so far. I keep running into silly quirks that I have to take time to fix in 5, library issues, that sort of thing. Basically I find myself wanting to reinstall with 4.8 on it. > > Partitions > I run a similar machine at work. p4 2.4Ghz 512MB, 80GB. and it runs great. I gave myself 1GB of swap, and I rarely ever touch more than 40-50MB when I'm really giving it a beating. / = 512MB, I'm current at 31% utilized /var = 256MB, 38% utilized /tmp = 256MB, 14% utilized /usr = the rest... > The machine currently has 512MB of RAM, but since I won't have the financial > means or desire to get a new complete system in the next two to four years, I haven't seen much need to upgrade my RAM, though I don't run the K nor GNOME. ~~ Andy Harrison (full headers for details) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQCVAwUBP1i47VPEkLgodAWVAQF3IgP/QNdaZhI6/buO1WaMJqBm0wkfByG1NqkC ELne8AiotgHAQ+RA8yM5tnktigqps2jXw/gyZm7MDiwPQI49xoFx2rEot1Ex1Ecm 4g6Wv1EaBzG10VqLU55IItm4t7FkllyJ3fT2F+2rx1RENd9wOm5uGAfeLw7ZHPYx +DwLWpfTbLA= =ULr1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----