Rolf wrote to Lawrence at 14:12 02 Jan:

 LG> I'm about to expand that, though. I acquired a pair of Gateway 486
 LG> desktops, which I'm going to drop 5x86/133 processors into, 32MB RAM
 LG> each, and a WD 800MB hard drive.

 RE> Lucky you! Can't you give me one of them.. ;)

the machine.. or the processor?

 LG> At my former employer, we dug some P166 systems out of the storage
 LG> closet and ramped them up with FreeBSD for 2 DNS servers, a sendmail
 LG> relay, and a P2/300 was ramped up to be an Apache server.

 RE> Ok.

 LG> It's a really great 'overnight' project.

 RE> Broadband ?

Yes... I did it on a DSL connection with a 1.4MB+ download speed.

Good point that needs to be taken into consideration.


 LG> http://www.freebsd.org :-)

 RE> True, or way not http://www.freebsd.se =)

Depending on your geographical location, one might be preferential to use a
European server, rather than a U.S. server.

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