From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 16:36:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA26317 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:36:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-5.mail.demon.net (relay-5.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.48]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA26310 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:35:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk by relay-5.mail.demon.net id cg27966; 20 Jul 96 0:22 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa26220; 19 Jul 96 23:36 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA12683; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 21:54:30 GMT Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 21:54:30 GMT Message-Id: <199607192154.VAA12683@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: snapkwl@anubis.network.com CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <9607191420.AA29883@anubis.network.com> (snapkwl@anubis.network.com) Subject: Re: Supported Configurations Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> snapkwl@anubis.network.com (William L. Snapko) writes: > > In considering the FreeBSD product for my use, I ran across the section in the > 2.1.5R release notes that talks about supported configurations. The statement is made > you support PCs "ranging from 386sx to Pentium Pro class machines" but the statement > is made "(though the 386sx is not recommended)." Why is the 386sx not on the > recommended list? The 386SX does work, it's just very slow (especially as they often only support 4MB of RAM, which is the very minimum for running FreeBSD). >Is there a more complete list of supported machines? If so, where > could I look at it? Go to http://www.freebsd.org/, follow the documentation link until you get to the Handbook, and then read the section entitled "Jordan's picks", which is a list of recommended hardware. As a quick rule of thumb, pay the extra for SCSI if you can afford it, go for as much RAM as possible and a nice big disk, but don't worry too much about getting the latest and greatest CPU. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/