From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 18:13:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.bctel.net (blizzard.bctel.net [204.174.66.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A47E614C27 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:13:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbannar-martin@pearson-college.uwc.ca) Received: from blizzard.bctel.net ([127.0.0.1]) by blizzard.bctel.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA2F06 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:11:35 -0700 Received: from m208.pearson-college.uwc.ca(206.12.92.208) by blizzard via smap (V2.0) id xma012024; Tue, 27 Jul 99 18:11:19 -0700 Message-ID: <379E5A43.BA1A7423@pearson-college.uwc.ca> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:17:55 -0700 From: Mark Bannar-Martin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Dual CPU hardware Newbie question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Information: SMAP 2.0+anti-spam, anti-relay hacks by Brian J. Murrell Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have searched the lists but I did not find a satisfactory posting for the following question: I am looking to purchase a dual cpu machine to run FreeBSD. I have only used 2.2.8 so far but I like it. I want to spend at most $2000. I am not interested in graphics and want to use this machine as a Samba server for a small workgroup of Win9x machines. Any hardware recommendations would be much appreciated as would the best FreeBSD release to use for rock solid platform. Perhaps the most important decisions for me are: 1. Single or dual CPU 2. IDE or SCSI hard drive Thank you, Mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message