From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 1 8:44:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from coimbra.oss.uswest.net (coimbra.oss.uswest.net [209.180.20.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6740E37BE70 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nitebirdz@coimbra.oss.uswest.net) Received: from localhost (nitebirdz@localhost) by coimbra.oss.uswest.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA13501; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:43:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:43:40 -0500 (CDT) From: To: Doug Young Cc: theoea@pacbell.net, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re using a 486 In-Reply-To: <035f01bfca4a$236ed540$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 31 May 2000, Doug Young wrote: > Who needs X on a gateway box ?? > > As far as I remember, he said this would be an "Internet appliance" which is not the same as a gateway... unless he did not express himself correctly. An "Internet appliance" is a box that provides you access to the Internet so you can browse, send and receive email, and nothing else. In other words, it doesn't include any other application such as a word processor, graphics editors, etc. If all he needs is to set up a router, proxy, gateway, etc. then even a 386 would do. Hed may even consider picoBSD then (I believe that is the name of the FreeBSD for embedded devices). -- Nitebirdz http://www.linuxnovice.org Tips, articles, news, links... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message