Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread doug
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote: I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts. If don't want to

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Brian W.
The pcbsd project which uses FreeBSD is another option. On Aug 20, 2012 11:31 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote: I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote: I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Robert Huff
Daniel Feenberg writes: But why order parts? If you want to learn FreeBSD, just take any old windows box and install FreeBSD over the existing windows install. It will work fine and won't cost you anything. This was (close to) my gut reaction. If all you want it the learning

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
If you have a system you want to try you can also check out http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html. That is a great resource for laptops, too bad it isn't mentioned in the Handbook compatibility chapter. Suggestion: send-pr Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-20 Thread Aaron Kaufman
On 6:56:26PM, Locksmith ty...@tristatesafeandlock.com wrote: I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts. The handbook is always a good

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-20 Thread James D. Parra
I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts. If don't want to make the full commitment to building a desktop, a