From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 20 23:48:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51F614DFD for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 23:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA16803; Fri, 21 May 1999 16:18:01 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA14811; Fri, 21 May 1999 16:17:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:17:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: gummibear@we.mediaone.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and K6-2's Message-ID: <19990521161755.C14371@freebie.lemis.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19990520220139.007bf5c0@we.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i 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 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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