Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Sat Nov 6 20:02:46 UTC 2010


On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:09:34 -0700
Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com> wrote:

> Yes, I would recommend that configuration also, because FreeBSD is
> much more lightweight of the two, so you don't impose the overhead of
> running Windows when all you need is FreeBSD.

I'm not sure that's true, actually. FreeBSD by itself may be a lot more
lightweight than Windows but once you add in Xorg and KDE I think it
needs about the same, if not more, memory. People will argue that you
don't have to run KDE or GNOME but as can be seen from the success of
Ubuntu people like complete desktop environments.

-- 
Bruce Cran


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