From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 17 18:16:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2A49316A47A for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:16:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) Received: from mail.united-ware.com (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CBF43D66 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:16:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.united-ware.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5HIKTwe075588 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:20:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) From: Anish Mistry Organization: AM Productions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:16:44 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <74252ed10606171050w6fdd78c8nd7fceedf4c5c2e6b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <74252ed10606171050w6fdd78c8nd7fceedf4c5c2e6b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4037166.ckZljdgvgY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200606171416.52309.amistry@am-productions.biz> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_99, MYFREEBSD2 autolearn=no version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.2/1548/Fri Jun 16 13:53:47 2006 on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Dan Bikle Subject: Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:16:34 -0000 --nextPart4037166.ckZljdgvgY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 17 June 2006 13:50, Dan Bikle wrote: > Hi, > > I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server. You probably don't want 5.3 as it will be EOL'd in a few months. For=20 any new installs you should be using 6.1. > Do you have any recommendations for some vendors? > > I could go buy some commodity hardware and do the install myself > but I seem to have bad luck with hands-on type tasks. > > I'm not picky about CPU; Intel or AMD is fine. > Anything over 1.5 GHZ should do it. > > RAM? > I guess 1GB would be good enough. > > Disk? > A couple of 80GB drives would work. What is this system going to be doing? =2D-=20 Anish Mistry amistry@am-productions.biz AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/ --nextPart4037166.ckZljdgvgY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBElEcUxqA5ziudZT0RAlb2AJ9O1H+aWials32aX4IsBIUEY1PErgCgoriJ 7/4PAifEz/lror39c2QFUq8= =llrA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4037166.ckZljdgvgY--