From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 1:21: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rrlhcmal1001.lhc.redrivernet.com (rrlhcmal1001.lhc.redrivernet.com [206.162.75.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7314337B71A for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 01:21:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eliyanah@techie.com) Received: from [216.173.151.42] by rrlhcmal1001.redrivernet.com (NTMail 5.06.0016/NU7672.00.74189ec7) with ESMTP id zkwembaa for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 02:20:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3AB5CF59.D1EB2DB6@techie.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 02:20:25 -0700 From: Janet Sullivan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david fletcher , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing and running bsd on an amd athlon computer References: <20010319065037.26414.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running FreeBSD on K6, K6-2, and Athlon machines, so yes, AMD chips are fine. :-) I also run the x86 version of Solaris 8 on an Athlon. Although I prefer FreeBSD a thousand times more than Slowaris, if that's what you are studying you might want to at least dual boot between FreeBSD and Solaris. david fletcher wrote: > > dear sirs, > > i just started training to be an oracle dba and am studying sun solaris unix. > > my computer has an amd new atholon thunderbird 850 MHz processor with 128 MEGS of RAM, a 40 gig high speed hard drive and floppy and cd rom drives. > > will free bsd run on my system? > > sun solaris unix requires intel so i'm not sure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message