From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 14 18:18: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D4E3E64 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:17:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19836; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:18:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:18:15 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: David Scheidt Cc: Troy Settle , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000214181815.B15442@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20000214165644.B7643@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 07:49:12PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 07:49:12PM -0600, David Scheidt wrote: > 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. Probalby not. ;-) I'd just run it headless, the serial port is one thing they seem to have done right. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message