Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > didn't think anyone was still using Intel 440BX boards in this day and > age! (A great chipset, though!)
I just updated an i440BX based dual-celeron-466 from some old 4.8-stable to 7.1-prerelease. "make buildworld" takes about eight hours (without -j), but I don't care, I just let it run over night. The machine is perfectly capable and fast enough to act as a name server, small mail and web server for a dozen people, and as a generic shell box for various tasks. There's also an old notebook (2001) with i440BX and a Pentium-III 850 MHz, which I use occasionally on trips. It's completely sufficient to get online, read e-mails, chat, browse the web, upload digital photos and so on. I hate throwing away hardware that's still working and up to the task. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd C++: "an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog" -- Steve Taylor, 1998 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
