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Date:      Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:49:12 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Troy Settle <troy@picus.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday!
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000214193824.79602C-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000214165644.B7643@orion.ac.hmc.edu>

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On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Brooks Davis wrote:

> I assume that GUI think was dtedit or something like it.  My first rule
> of surviving Solaris is don't run CDE.  In fact, don't run CDE is
> probably my first three rules. ;-)  Infact, if the box has work to do,
> running X is generally a bad idea without tons of RAM.  I've seen the X
> server hit more then 150MB on my Ultra 10.  Add that to netscape and
> staroffice with a powerpoint presentation open and you'll swap a 256MB
> system to death.

Of course, I have had a Sun fall over with repeatable panics because the
text console on CGSIX Framebuffer couldn't keep up with it's messages.o

I do hompe they have fixed that by now.




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