From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 9:44:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from radius.wavefire.com (radius.wavefire.com [139.142.95.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E8EA37BBD0 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swen@wavefire.com) Received: (qmail 24179 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2000 17:44:34 -0000 Received: from swen.wavefire.com (139.142.167.220) by radius.wavefire.com with SMTP; 22 Mar 2000 17:44:34 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000322094009.028b6100@mail.wavefire.com> X-Sender: swen@mail.wavefire.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:43:54 -0800 To: "'Nell Colucci'" From: Chameleon Subject: Re: SV: Hardware Requirements Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" In-Reply-To: <01BF9411.3854CE20.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:13 PM 3/22/00 +0100, Thomas Uhrfelt wrote: > > Hi. I'm a novice to Unix and am in the midst of purchasing copy of > > FreeBSD. I want to buy a used computer to load FreeBSD and experiment/ > > learn. Budget is an issue. What, therefore, are the minimum hardware > > requirements to run version 4.0? > >Depends totally on what you are going to do with it once running. As a >little example here - On one site I manage, we are using an old P100 with >32MBs of memory doing all our mailwork (for about 170 users) + proxycaching >+ NAT etc .. basically all the network chores. This particular box never >even licks the swapfile. If you are planning a lot of fancy GUI stuff, then >I would put my money on a decent graphics card and some more memory. Doing >normal desktop work it's my impression (very subjective!) that you take the >processing power you need under WinNT and divide it by 3 or 4. The memory >you divide by 2 or 3 etc. I totally agree... we're running 9 or 10 FreeBSD boxes at my work... and they do 10X what a similar windoze box could do... i'm running 3.4 on a 486 33Mhz with 16 megs RAM, and as a firewall/server it runs great. A little slow... but thats what you get with a 486 :) Swen >Regards, > >Thomas Uhrfelt > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ********************************** and you point would be...? Just beyond your grasp... ********************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message