Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:05:17 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "'Ken Bolingbroke'" <hacker@bolingbroke.com>, "'Jason Heibult'" <heib2246@blue.univnorthco.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD Message-ID: <011001c08452$7118a880$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101212239210.37280-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ken >Bolingbroke > >I've been running a mail/web/dns server as well as a NAT gateway on a >386dx40 with 8meg RAM for several years. One caveat is that >you need at >least 12 meg RAM to run sysinstall on more recent versions of >FreeBSD, but >I could do a buildworld on a faster machine, then installworld >on the '386 >just fine. It's recently been retired from those duties and >now serves as >just a fax server, but it's always done the job. DNS, mail >for a handful >of users, and a low traffic web site isn't all that demanding. > After all, >this machine was state-of-the art 10 years ago. :-) > >Ken > Even better, these older 386's and 486/33's don't need a CPU fan, so one less thing to get cockeyed. And I'd trust a system that has lasted 10 years and was still going strong more than a system with only 6 months on it. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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