Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

[Andy Harrison]

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On 05-Sep-2003, Michael Vondung wrote message "Planning a FreeBSD desktop,
basic questions."
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> 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.

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> Partitions
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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.



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Andy Harrison
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