Subj : FreeBSD 4.3-RC buffer issue
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Sat Apr 14 2001 06:04 am

Roy wrote to Brad at 10:21 14 Apr:

 RJT> Brad Laue wrote in a message to ALL:

 BL> How many BSD people do we have lurking on FidoNet? I'd be
 BL> interested in knowing that :)

 RJT> I have a cdrom here that somebody sent me,  though aside from
 RJT> reading some of the text files on it I haven't done anything with
 RJT> it yet,  and it's far from current.  V4.1?  Something like 
 RJT> that... How much hardware would it take to get this going?  As a 
 RJT> minimum? I'd like to have a go at it,  and have lots of older 
 RJT> stuff aroud
 RJT> here.

Actually v4.2 is the current release, so you're not that far out of date. v4.2 
was released last November.

I have just acquired a v4.0 myself... and am looking to check it out in the 
near future.

www.freebsd.org indicates the system will run on a Pentium(tm) with 5MB RAM.

If you're not going to run graphics, it's generally true that 8MB is more than 
sufficient to run just about any *nix system. I've successfully run an X 
Console on a 486DX2/66 with 32MB RAM -- but it was a bit slow.

The key to running graphics is memory.. not the CPU.. at least as affects a 
single user PC.

Truthfully, if you're new to Unix and -really- want to learn about it, my 
recommendation is to install whatever ya got WITHOUT graphics (which, of 
course, means you can use older/slower equipment) -- and concentrate on 
learning whats in the basic OS.. otherwise the overhead of the X configs can 
suck up all of your time and you'll miss all of the stuff that will really be 
useful in fixing and maintaining Unix boxes.

Nobody has standardized graphical interfaces for administering Unix systems.. 
but if you understand how to do it from a shell prompt -- you can administer 
almost any Unix system with, maybe, a few hours of orientation for a system 
you've never worked on before.


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