From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 09:46:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E0137B401 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 09:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumax.dyndns.org (212-100-182-6.adsl.easynet.be [212.100.182.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896F843FCB for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 09:46:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisp@belgacom.net) Received: by sumax.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 63B612285; Thu, 1 May 2003 18:43:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 18:43:45 +0200 From: chrisp@belgacom.net To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030501164345.GB377@freedaemon.home.lan> References: <20030430210613.70925.qmail@web20608.mail.yahoo.com> <242501c30f5d$f57b4ea0$7419cdcd@ticking> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <242501c30f5d$f57b4ea0$7419cdcd@ticking> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 Subject: Re: Version of FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 16:46:37 -0000 On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:17:51PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: > > > Hello, I am a windows user, but I'm planning to try a GNU OS, maybe > FreeBSD. My question is about the minimum or recomended requirements for > this OS. I wish to install it in a Pentium 200 MMX, 96 MB RAM and 3.4 GB of > hard disk. ¿What version could I install in that machine, and which may I > install if I want to get a minimal speed? Thanks for your > time.... > > > FreeBSD 4.8 would be the version of choice for a new user. It will run fine > on that system, provided you use a Lightweight Window Manager for X, rather > than Gnome or KDE. > It all depends on what you like. If you want the system to be really fast and responsive, GNOME and KDE aren't ideal :-). If you don't mind a delay every now and then, GNOME and/or KDE (with eye candy, special effects and unnecessary daemons turned off) could be usable on that kind of machine, maybe about as fast as Windows Me/2000. Window Maker is fast and responsive on that kind of hardware, you could also consider XFCE (a more lightweight desktop environment). (I once accidentally installed KDE (1.something) when installing a Linux distro on a 486, now THAT was slow :-). ) > Note that FreeBSD is not a GNU OS (In fact there is only one GNU OS, Debian > Hurd. Linux, or GNU/Linux as the FSF Zealots like to call it, is not > entirely GPL either.), It's a BSD, which happens to use some GPL software. > The only piece of GLP software it depends on is gcc. >