Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 18:43:45 +0200 From: chrisp@belgacom.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20030501164345.GB377@freedaemon.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <242501c30f5d$f57b4ea0$7419cdcd@ticking> References: <20030430210613.70925.qmail@web20608.mail.yahoo.com> <242501c30f5d$f57b4ea0$7419cdcd@ticking>
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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. >
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