From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 28 5: 2:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sork.levonline.com (tistel.levonline.com [193.15.191.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1127837B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 05:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fredrik@speechcraft.com) Received: from CTHULHU (t6o74p58.telia.com [212.181.216.178]) (authenticated) by sork.levonline.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4SC2SV11445; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:02:28 +0200 Message-ID: <003501c0e76e$22f7d520$0e0101c0@CTHULHU> From: "Fredrik Olausson" To: , "Brad Knowles" References: <001701c0e75b$42e79f90$0e0101c0@CTHULHU> Subject: Re: Compiler? (was: The desktop apathy) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 14:02:56 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- > A newer G3 (such as an iMac) should work, and would be what I > would consider to be the lowest-end machine you can expect to be > functional. I wouldn't go for anything much slower than 350-400 Mhz, > and make sure you've got at least 128MB of RAM (preferably more), and > several gigabytes of disk space (MacOS X will take at least one GB > all by itself). > > The first G3 machines (beige) won't officially be supported by > Apple, but with some third-party help, might also be able to run > MacOS X, and if they've had the processor upgraded (to a fast G4, or > a pair of fast G4s), could even be pretty speedy MacOS X boxes. Great, thanks! I always wanted a transparent, pink, Unix workstation ;) -Fredrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message