From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 21 3:25: 5 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 03:25:01 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF4B37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 03:24:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA12315; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:23:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Wes Peters Cc: Mike Nowlin , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping lots of systems all the same... References: <3A41C329.6E3C1EFD@softweyr.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 21 Dec 2000 12:23:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: Wes Peters's message of "Thu, 21 Dec 2000 01:45:29 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters writes: > Mike Nowlin wrote: > > The users will basically need to be able to run X w/Gnome, StarOffice, > > Nutscrape, and (the huge, resource-hogging app) telnet. > Figure 32MB RAM for FreeBSD & X, 64MB for Netscape, and 64MB for StarOffice. > If you want to run both Netscape and StarOffice at the same time, 128MB > isn't enough. Sigh. Avoid StarOffice like the plague. It's neat, but it leaks like a sieve, and barely crawls along on my 450 MHz K6-2. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message