Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:17:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: gummibear@we.mediaone.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and K6-2's Message-ID: <19990521161755.C14371@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990520220139.007bf5c0@we.mediaone.net>; from gummibear@we.mediaone.net on Thu, May 20, 1999 at 10:01:39PM -0700 References: <3.0.6.32.19990520220139.007bf5c0@we.mediaone.net>
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On Thursday, 20 May 1999 at 22:01:39 -0700, gummibear@we.mediaone.net wrote: > > > I'm thinking of upgrading my old P133 FreeBSD machine with a new > Motherboard, RAM and an AMD K6-2 350. They're less than 60 bucks now. :) > I'm thinking about 64 megs of RAM minimum, maybe more depending on my > budget. I have a Win95 machine running on an ASUS P5A motherboard which > seems really nice. Thinking of getting another just the same, or maybe an > ASUS P5A-B which is pretty much the same but it's baby AT size. I plan to > use the machine as a X Workstation, HTTP-FTP-TELNET server, NATD Gateway, > and SAMBA server. I really don't want to spend more than 300 bucks for > Motherboard, CPU, RAM, and Case (if neccessary). > > My questions are: > > 1.) Does FreeBSD and AMD K6-2 350 make a good combination as far as > performance, speed, and stability goes? Yes. > 2.) Other than ASUS motherboards, what would be another good choice for a > low cost FreeBSD Workstation/Server? I have no particular recommendation. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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