From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 9 15:30:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF93106567F for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:30:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eagletree@hughes.net) Received: from smtprelay.b.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0130.b.hostedemail.com [64.98.42.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ACD68FC27 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:30:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eagletree@hughes.net) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (b-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay02.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 64E23627CE9 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:30:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Summary: 2, 0, 0, a91c4c67f0f363ed, d41d8cd98f00b204, eagletree@hughes.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, RULES_HIT:355:379:387:541:599:601:945:965:966:988:989:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1358:1359:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1539:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1766:1792:2196:2199:2393:2553:2559:2562:2693:3027:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3869:3870:3873:3874:4250:4385:4390:4395:5007:7652:7903:8957:9040:10004, 0, RBL:none, CacheIP:none, Bayesian:0.5, 0.5, 0.5, Netcheck:none, DomainCache:0, MSF:not bulk, SPF:fn, MSBL:none, DNSBL:none, Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-Session-Marker: 6561676C6574726565406875676865732E6E6574 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1506 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (dpc6744118153.direcpc.com [67.44.118.153]) (Authenticated sender: eagletree@hughes.net) by omf13.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Message-Id: From: Chris In-Reply-To: <20090709151000.GF25876@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:29:48 -0700 References: <368E57AC-8366-46EA-BE1A-5EBB07B64EDC@hughes.net> <20090709151000.GF25876@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Subject: Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:30:10 -0000 On Jul 9, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:58:21AM -0700, Chris wrote: > -> > -> 2. Am I too lean on the specs for the free AMD/Intel boxes we > -> are requesting parents cough up? > > Well, I don't think that you need 256 GB of ram. Probably > less than 1 GB, in fact maybe 256 MB will be plenty. 10 GB > of hard disk might be a little tight, but if you aren't doing > databases and making big permanent sites, but only just small > teaching web pages, then you should get by. > Doh! All references to RAM in my post should have been MB, not GB. I'm too old to type anymore. > ////jerry >