From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 27 14:03:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22622 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:03:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from filesafe.net (root@taxsys.com [206.224.95.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22606 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:03:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sales@taxsys.com) From: sales@taxsys.com Received: from taxsys.com (209-113-28-133.insync.net [209.113.28.133]) by filesafe.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA23823 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:04:04 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <351C2258.D24836B4@taxsys.com> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:04:09 -0600 Organization: Tax Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Hardware References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I was curious to the types of hardware that you guys/gals are using for > your FreeBSD machine. > Well, lurking time is over, time to opt in... Running 233MHZ K6 with Ultra DMA 3 or 4 gig, I forget, and 384 meg ram. We chose FreeBSD on a friends recommendation for our Web server and have been really happy with the stability. Since coming from the windows/dos world, you will know how starved for that we are. I wondered about the Ultra DMA and in talking to some hardware types found a wealth of opinion that said IDE was IDE. We have been running since October 97 with no problems. The K6 was a question too, but aside from some installation hiccups, (I think we had to use a floppy from an earlier version, we are running 2.2.2) the K6 has been great. It's in the same class as the Pentium II and is a heck of a lot cheaper. Current versions probably cleared up the install problems. We've had to learn a lot in a hurry, but we'll be newbies for while yet... I hope this email (Netscape) is formatting OK? Will willock@taxsys.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message