From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 14 17:48:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A7C3DFC for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:48:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA87109; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:49:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:49:12 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Brooks Davis Cc: Troy Settle , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! In-Reply-To: <20000214165644.B7643@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message