Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:52:55 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Troy Settle <troy@picus.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000214185255.E17536@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000214181815.B15442@orion.ac.hmc.edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 06:18:15PM -0800 References: <20000214165644.B7643@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000214193824.79602C-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> <20000214181815.B15442@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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* Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> [000214 18:46] wrote: > 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. uh you mean where it misinterprets disconnect as break? lovely... -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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