Date: Tue, 29 Sep 98 13:46:43 +0200 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: This a decent system for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <H000057c0189c8c8@MHS> In-Reply-To: <3610BA47.1DDAD9A6@cybcon.com>
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If the SCSI and Ethernet chips are supported, this seems a very fine system (I personnally would be overjoyed by the erasure of Win$ NT by FreeBSD). Then you'll have to check about the support of the motherboard chipset as far as SMP is concerned. Have fun TfH PS : regarding performance, all depends on what it will have to do (for a single user, I don't see what the gain will be - Is Xfree threaded ?) > Got a chance to buy this system. What ya think, how well would FreeBSD > perform on this as compared to a Single P200 chip with the rest of the > hardware the same ? I would run -current elf with SMP. > > Mid-tower case, 7 bay > Dual socket 8 motherboard, Ultra-wide onboard SCSI, onboard 10/100 > NIC > 2 Pentium Pro 150 cpu's > 32 meg RAM > Fujitsu 1 Gig Fast WIDE scsi HD > keyboard, floppy, video > NT 4.0 server > > They want $495.00, sound like a decent deal? > > -- > > ------------------------------ > AOL IM - BSDMAN1 > William Woods - wwoods@cybcon.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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