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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


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