From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 05:08:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA09101 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 05:08:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (ns.celwave.tm.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA09095 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 05:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id OAA22763; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:13:30 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id OAA07241; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:06:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA00519; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:52:46 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00840; Tue, 29 Sep 98 13:53:07 +0200 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA298409621; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:47:01 +0200 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 98 13:46:43 +0200 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3610BA47.1DDAD9A6@cybcon.com> Subject: This a decent system for FreeBSD? Mime-Version: 1.0 To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="This" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="This" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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