From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Feb 15 4:25:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [195.39.16.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7597237B400 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 04:25:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g1FCP4D12860 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:25:05 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2002021513214499:785 ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:21:44 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1FCajm82508 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:36:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:36:45 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First impressions of freebsd 4.5 Message-ID: <20020215123645.GJ75949@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <005e01c1b611$f1126b60$0300a8c0@cb03> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <005e01c1b611$f1126b60$0300a8c0@cb03> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 02/15/2002 01:21:45 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 02/15/2002 01:21:51 PM, Serialize complete at 02/15/2002 01:21:51 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: "Nora Schram (Planet)" > To: > 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... :) -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 1:30PM up 25 days, 19:53, 13 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.03, 0.09 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message