Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:37:44 -0600 From: Lute Mullenix <lute@willinet.net> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need a box, and your experience. Message-ID: <20010323183744.A300@willinet.net> In-Reply-To: <3ABBB808.95A519F0@aviating.com>; from jallen@aviating.com on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:54:32PM -0800 References: <v04003a09b6e1292dea52@[192.168.1.100]> <20010323113758.A13486@willinet.net> <3ABBB808.95A519F0@aviating.com>
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:54:32PM -0800, Slim wrote:
>
> And the beauty of it is that these 'old, slow' boxes that are
> 'worthless' because they won't run w98 etc. run just fine on
> FreeBSD/Linux/Unix systems, right?
>
> Jim Allen
>
>
Right you are! Even my "main" machine, which is running Linux till I
comfortable with FreeBSD was given to me. Had been scavenged, but I spent
about $20 for 48MB of RAM, and $130 for a 30GB drive, and it worked so well
that I went ahead and sprung for a new 17" monitor for it, picked that up
for $140. So for under $300 you have a nice shiny new monitor, disk space
till the cows come home, and memory enough to handle even X quite
comfortably. It's a 166MHz Pentium, and plenty fast enough running X that I
see no need to upgrade. Do you think you would hear someone running Windows
in any version over 3.1 that would say the same? And from what I'm reading,
FreeBSD should be even a bit faster on here once I switch.
Give me your poor, your hungry, your old hardware... :)
--
>Lute<
Hey! It happens. Well it does...
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