From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 14:48:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fisher.vip.uk.com (fisher.vip.uk.com [194.176.218.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E46B937B409 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 14:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from modem-193-121-60-62.vip.uk.com ([62.60.121.193]) by fisher.vip.uk.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 17Cp5r-0003dH-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 May 2002 23:05:27 +0100 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 22:48:32 +0100 Subject: Talking to FreeBSD from OS X From: "Michael Hopkins, ACS Consultancy" To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all I'm hoping to set up a fast x86 box that I can use to copy tested source code to, recompile there with gcc & then run - all from from the Mac OS X Terminal (programs are console/file input & output so no GUI issues yet). The incentive is that I can I can build something very fast, very cheap - I estimate a ratio of about 8x speed per =A3 (!!) for my double precision linea= r algebra problems using ATLAS etc. Anyway, as Darwin on x86 is still at a very early stage I need to consider what OS to use on the box - and the obvious choices are Linux (because it's everywhere) & FreeBSD (because it shares some important underlying stuff with OS X).=20 All I want in the machine is motherboard, processor(s), memory, hard disk & network card - maybe a CD for the installation process. I would like to as= k the people here: (1) What would be required (after plugging a crossover cable between network cards) to let the machines see each other & interact? I am a complete novice on networking, but understand some of the ideas such as IP addresses, remote login etc. Will it all be as easy in reality as it sounds? (2) Any recommendations/warnings on hardware choices (mainly motherboards = & network cards I guess) for compatibility with FreeBSD? Are any dual processor motherboards considered reliable? Thanks in advance & please feel free to copy replies to my email address Michael _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_= / =20 _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ ACS Consultancy _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ Information Sciences for Industry _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ Tel: 01732~463519 Mobile: 0781~3467381 =20 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_= / `All models are wrong, but some are useful' - George Box To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message