Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:42:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>, Jason Heibult <heib2246@blue.univnorthco.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010123134203.F414@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <011001c08452$7118a880$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:05:17AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101212239210.37280-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com> <011001c08452$7118a880$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Your quoted text had alternate long and short lines. On Monday, 22 January 2001 at 1:05:17 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 > Ken Bolingbroke wrote: >> >> 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. :-) > > 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. That might apply to the silicon, but it definitely doesn't apply to moving parts such as fans (there are still fans in most power supplies) and disk drives. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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