Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:36:45 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First impressions of freebsd 4.5 Message-ID: <20020215123645.GJ75949@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <005e01c1b611$f1126b60$0300a8c0@cb03> References: <005e01c1b611$f1126b60$0300a8c0@cb03>
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> From: "Nora Schram (Planet)" <nora.schram@planet.nl>
> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: First impressions of freebsd 4.5
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:14:26 +0100
Hi there, please, break your lines at ~72 chars.
> Some weeks ago I put FreeBSD on an old PC and I was impressed with the
> ease of installation.
:) That's always nice to hear.
> Now my questions:
> 1. I have a lot of experience with DOS C application development
> (Raima Data Manager and C-Scape windowing library). After
> experimenting with Delphi and VBasic I definitely decided I do NOT
> want to program for Windows. So, if anybody can just put me on the
> right track to a good database system and a development system it
> would help me very much.
Um. You mean you develop data-based applications? Well, then that
depends on your requirements. For ease of installation, MySQL.
For advanced stuff (triggers...), probably PostgreSQL.
> 2. My test server just has 1Mb of disk and 32 Mb memory and P233, I
> suppose this is not enough to set up X-windows comfortably. Any
> suggestions? Upgrade the server, get another machine?
I wouldn't use X on a file server. It's just unneeded cruft. Get
another machine. I use FreeBSD-4.4, Xfree86-4.1.0 w/ Blackbox-0.61.1
on an old Celeron 300A / 256MB RAM, and it just rocks.
True, I just use X to be able to have multiple terminals open... :)
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FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE
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