Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:31:10 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: herbert langhans <herbert.raimund@gmx.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 755C and FreeBSD's minimal hardware requirements - still usable? Message-ID: <20091020063110.5f198093.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091019111219.GA896@sandcat> References: <20091019064727.fc002b1f.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091019111219.GA896@sandcat>
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On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:12:19 +0200, herbert langhans <herbert.raimund@gmx.net> wrote: > Not a long time ago I got an old Thinkpad 600. With 300MHz and 165MB Ram. > > Also the same challenge - small and fast ports for daily work. > I run X11 with fluxbox (installed without! hal support). Of course. Fluxbox is a very lightweight and still appealing window manager with very usable keyboard functionality. Other solutions that I would have considered lightweight (but I have to re-check the facts of today) include WindowMaker and XFCE 3. > Recommendable ports are: Opera (smaller then Firefox) [...] Even on my "fast" machine the preferred browser. > [...] vim (also gvim) is my text editor - it replaces word > processing software. That's what I mostly use LaTeX for. > Centerim for instant messaging (instead of pidgin). This seems to be something like CenterICQ (just judging by name). > Generally all the motif-programs are small and fast. I'm using things like xpdf (uses OpenMotif) whenever I can. > Maybe you go for a bigger harddisk? Costs a few bucks and will > have enough space for BSD 7.2 (what I use) and some of the ports? I'm not sure if the system will accept it. Recently, I had to buy a 20 GB disk for my Siemens-Fujitsu Travelmate, because it did not accept the 40 GB disk I still had (extracted from a dead laptop). > Compiling your own kernel and cleaning out the kernel source and > the distfiles of the ports is also a good idea.. But I think it has to be done on a separate machine. I would imagine that I can at least prepare the hard disk for the Thinkpad in another machine (e. g. the S-F Travelmate I mentioned). But I managed to get FreeBSD installed via parallel cable in the past (plip). I'm just curious if the audio capabilites of the Thinkpad can be made working... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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