From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 24 21:09:09 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6886C5B7; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:09:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sdf.org (ma.sdf.org [192.94.73.31]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "ma.sdf.org", Issuer "ma.sdf.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49AA885F; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:09:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ma.sdf.org (IDENT:U2FsdGVkX18r5/1Folticrf5CZA8jLwadCTlY54sJn4@ma.sdf.org [192.94.73.31]) by sdf.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id t1OL90Bj019723; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:09:00 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:09:00 -0600 From: cpet To: zep Subject: Re: System to install FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <54ECD686.7000504@gmail.com> References: <54ECD686.7000504@gmail.com> Message-ID: <30f203dea165c7336b0b6661cc84e547@sdf.org> X-Sender: cpet@sdf.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:09:09 -0000 On 2015-02-24 13:52, zep wrote: > On 02/24/2015 02:40 PM, BINDU PULIYANKODAN KAROTH wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am planning to buy a system to install FreeBSD for training on UNIX >> Administration. My broad choices are to go for either a laptop or a >> desktop. >> >> Laptop >> ------ >> From looking around the web , I found that Laptops are generally >> windows >> compatible and may run in to issues with other OS. >> Can you suggest me some good laptops that would be good for this >> purpose. >> >> Desktop >> ------- >> If I choose to go for a desktop ( I do not have any specific >> hardware in mind) is it okay if go with any of them available in the >> market? >> >> Also , in general >> 1) Are there any specific system requirements in terms of the memory >> and >> hard drive >> or other requirements >> 2) Is it necessary to purchase a system with any UNIX OS in it , to >> ensure >> that it will work fine with BSD. >> >> Kindly advise >> >> > > given that it's for training, wouldn't it make more sense to be pretty > much hardware agnostic and use virtulization (either virtualbox, xen, > or > any of several commercial options) and make the BSD machine a VM that > you can snapshot back to after training is done? You can get a el cheapo ATOM box for cheap if you want a dedicated box for testing and learning. Personally I would run it in a VM if I was you but. You are entitled to do as you wish. SuperMicro makes nice servers and desktops which are known to be fully compatible with Linux/BSD iX systems does as well but I think they stopped making desktops. You need to be careful of the MB you buy if you want to build your own learn to build a desktop as well as UNIX would be good. My 2 cents.