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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:54:15 -0400
From:      Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>
To:        peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ABOUT BSD
Message-ID:  <4.1.0.67.19981016134851.00a9a300@genesis.ispace.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810161746.MAA11279@bonkers.taronga.com>
References:  <4.1.0.67.19981016133845.00aa4bd0@genesis.ispace.com>

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At 12:46 PM 10/16/98 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
>> Smallest machine I'll bother with now is maybe a 4dx4-100.  Ran it on a
>> 386DX-33 for a while, I don't think I'd go back to that :-) 
>
>I'm using a 486 DX/50. I wouldn't recommend a 386 for more than a dedicated
>box (you know, the sort of thing you'd dedicate a Pentium 200 or less to
>under NT <grin>).
---
Yeah, my FreeBSD box is larger than the NT Workstation running the Netscape
Servers... The FreeBSD box is a comfortable PII-333 128/4.3gig.  The NT
machine is behind as a P200 (non-MMX) 64/2.5gig..  

The FreeBSD box can build a kernel in about 2 or 3 minutes, no arguements
here. :-)

>
>I'm using 386 DX/20s for routers.
>
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At Heatseeker.net we use a P120 for routing.  Gated is a resource hog, but
I think it's due to my lack of knowledge with it, so it's causing loops or
something like that.

>Interestingly, a 386DX/20 is a lot peppier under FreeBSD than Linux.

Yeah I'm Anti-Linux, for 2 reasons:
1> I hate the command set, I ran RHS 4 for like 2 months, and it didn't cut
it.  
2> The User-base consists of a lot of 14 year olds saying "Look at me, Look
at me, I run Linux and can nuke people, and I don't run Win95, PHEEEER
ME..".. Aparantely the developers don't seem to have a problem with that
philosophy.  Whatever adds to the user count I guess.

>
>I'm using 2.2.6 on them. I can't get 3.0-BETA to install.
>

I'm running a CVSup of 3.0-BETA (aout).  Haven't updated for the last week
or two due to a lot of load on the CVS servers.. Also, make world takes a
fair deal of time, and I almost crashed it last time doing it remotely.

I am introducing a Solaris X86 box tonight, but I already don't like the
insane load averages (It's a P200MMX 32/2.2, I shouldn't be seeing .28 for
idle :-)).  But I paid 10 bucks for it from SUN, might as well play with it
some. (Oh and their reboot is broken too, but I heard I'm not the first to
say that.).


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Drew "Droobie" Baxter
Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM)
OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275
http://www.droo.orland.me.us


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