Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:02:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org> To: Thaisan Tonthat <t_tonthat@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007122155420.94983-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <20000713041451.28827.qmail@hotmail.com>
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I would start by reading through the first several sections of the FreeBSD handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook. Pretty much you can install and run FreeBSD stabily on any kind of x86 machine, as long as it doesn't have any Windows-based hardware (like Winmodems, etc.) or any odd-ball hardware. If you are planning on using X Windows (most likely XFree86), you may want to skim through the XFree86 documentations and support hardware lists to make sure that the video card you picked out will work. At today's hardware and prices, you can put together a machine with either an Intel Celeron or an AMD Athlon processor with 32-64MB of RAM, >4 GB hard drive and a decent video card (something like a Matrox G200 or G400 would be good enough for X). If the machine will be on a network, a decent network card (like an Intel, 3Com, Linksys, etc.) is definitely a must. I actually ran FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE on a dual P5-100 with 64MB of RAM and a 1MB PCI video card, running XFree86 3.3.5, sure it was a little slow, but it ran Netscape, WordPerfect, StarOffice and even Mozilla M12 without a hitch. // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Thaisan Tonthat wrote: > Hello, > I am going to build a computer on which i am planning to run a version of > un*x. I am almost positive i am going to run free bsd on my machine, but i > would like to know before i build my machine, what is a good configurating > (be broad) for a computer running free bsd? I will be building this > computer from scratch. Thanks for your help! > Sincerely, > Thaisan Tonthat > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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