Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:25:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Harrison <ah4@mlz.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions. Message-ID: <XFMail.20030905122518.ah4@mlz.us> In-Reply-To: <001301c373be$9e8c9660$0200a8c0@tabby>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On 05-Sep-2003, Michael Vondung wrote message "Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 4.8 or 5.1? > I have 4.8 at work, and 5 at home. I'm happier with 4.8 so far. I keep running into silly quirks that I have to take time to fix in 5, library issues, that sort of thing. Basically I find myself wanting to reinstall with 4.8 on it. > > Partitions > I run a similar machine at work. p4 2.4Ghz 512MB, 80GB. and it runs great. I gave myself 1GB of swap, and I rarely ever touch more than 40-50MB when I'm really giving it a beating. / = 512MB, I'm current at 31% utilized /var = 256MB, 38% utilized /tmp = 256MB, 14% utilized /usr = the rest... > The machine currently has 512MB of RAM, but since I won't have the financial > means or desire to get a new complete system in the next two to four years, I haven't seen much need to upgrade my RAM, though I don't run the K nor GNOME. ~~ Andy Harrison (full headers for details) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQCVAwUBP1i47VPEkLgodAWVAQF3IgP/QNdaZhI6/buO1WaMJqBm0wkfByG1NqkC ELne8AiotgHAQ+RA8yM5tnktigqps2jXw/gyZm7MDiwPQI49xoFx2rEot1Ex1Ecm 4g6Wv1EaBzG10VqLU55IItm4t7FkllyJ3fT2F+2rx1RENd9wOm5uGAfeLw7ZHPYx +DwLWpfTbLA= =ULr1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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