From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 2: 5:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251D137B698 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:05:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with UUCP id f0MA5Un49870; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:05:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (tedsbox [192.168.1.20]) by toybox.placo.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA26525; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:05:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "'Ken Bolingbroke'" , "'Jason Heibult'" Cc: Subject: RE: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:05:17 -0800 Message-ID: <011001c08452$7118a880$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----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