From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 16 11:26:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dnsp1.sce.com (dnsp1.sce.com [155.13.48.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E465C37BFFC for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ryan.Gamo@sce.com) Received: from D058661.sce.com (D058661.sce.com [155.13.167.39]) by dnsp1.sce.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/5.5.5) with ESMTP id LAA39482 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:26:51 -0700 From: Ryan.Gamo@sce.com Received: from go2ntswpr01.sce.com (D068976.sce.com [155.13.76.17]) by D058661.sce.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.7) with ESMTP id LAA83366 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:26:51 -0700 Received: from go2ntdomc01.sce.com (unverified) by go2ntswpr01.sce.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:26:08 -0700 Subject: Re: How much machine do i need? To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Cc: X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.2a (Intl) 23 November 1999 Message-Id: Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:26:07 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on GO2NTDOMC01/SVR/SCE/EIX(Release 5.0.1a (Intl)|17 August 1999) at 06/16/2000 11:26:08 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My pentium 133 runs fine, albeit slow when it comes to compiling and other complex tasks. I think you'll be ok as long as you run command line interface only. I'm not a real fan of GUI's for unix anyway. I had some experience using X under Linux and found it to be terribly unstable, dropping core every which way. Although it makes menial tasks like adding users very simple and it is intuitive in that respect. And it does cute things like transparent windows... gimp is every bit as good (and then some) as Photoshop. The solaris boxes that we use here run X pretty good. They'll run for months on end without incident. It's a hardware thing I guess. If you have many of those units "laying around" you may consider parallel processing. Just a thought. Ryan M. Gamo IT Application Services - TDBU Phone: (626)308-6696 * Fax: (626)308-6390 Pager: (888)586-7992 PIN 318489 "KNOW YOUR ROLE" "Craft, Paul" Sent by: cc: owner-freebsd-questions@F Subject: How much machine do i need? reeBSD.ORG 06/16/2000 11:09 AM I have some older pentium 90 and 120 machines laying around. Would one of them support FreeBSD while I test drive it. If not, what are the minimums for hardware? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message