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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:15:48 +0100
From:      "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine
Message-ID:  <d74eb87c1003120315t3cb08770xb02d8e2ff4ab132b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx>
References:  <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx>

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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com> wrote:
> The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III processors
> with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB.
>
> It won't do anything else but a dns slave for maybe 100 domains, mail and
> squirrel for 10 domain, not more than 100 users with very low volume. That's
> all.

Wow, that's a big and fast machine, compared to some of the really OLD
boxes that run FreeBSD 8.0 just fine with a load similar to yours (some of
them with 500 MHz CPUs, 128 MB RAM and 20 GB disks). For server
needs, go for 8.0, you won't regret it.

-cpghost.

-- 
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