Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:11:26 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20010114201126.A4752@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20010114123824.D1379@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:38:24PM -0500 References: <28586.979469127@critter> <200101141115.f0EBFBQ89810@mobile.wemm.org> <20010114130017.A1612@student.uu.se> <20010114040933.A35126@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010114133018.A1918@student.uu.se> <20010114123824.D1379@puck.firepipe.net>
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:38:24PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:30:19PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > Point taken. I was mainly (knee-jerk) reacting to the statements that > > a 386 was unsuitable for running anything above 2.2.x which is not true. > > (Note to self: Think things through a bit more before replying next time.) > > That makes sense, if there is some realistic proportion to your > assertions that 386 can run up to 4.x just fine. :-) As I said, I am running 4.2 on a 386 that does gateway/firewall duty. For that purpose it works fine and with minimal swapping. I wouldn't recommend running Mozilla on it though. :-) As long as what you are doing isn't too hungry for CPU/memory then 4.2 is quite usable on a 386 IMO. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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