Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:14:37 +0100 From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc> To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD <PETER.HARRISON@dwp.gsi.gov.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: RE: FreeBSD starter machine... Message-ID: <bbe90d1d0512120414t1c707a97qa836cd56c1b7bd15@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0740B9A6C3639441850D84E94767945C5B3B62@DMM00038.link2.gpn.gov.uk> References: <0740B9A6C3639441850D84E94767945C5B3B62@DMM00038.link2.gpn.gov.uk>
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> In the past I've run 4.6 on a P1 133mhz with 64MB RAM and a 3GB disk. Mor= e recently I was running 5.3 on a Thinkpad 600e PII 333mhz with 160MB RAM a= nd 2GB slice within the disk (until the hardware died). Although the OS ran= fine on both of these there are limitations. You'd probably need to steer = clear of the more 'newbie' friendly window managers such as Gnome or KDE (b= oth the above ran Fluxbox handily to save on both speed and diskspace), and= that may effect the required learning curve. I'm running 4.8 on a 486dx2 50MHz with 32MB RAM and 20GB disk. It's slow as h***, but it works. It's running fluxbox, but most of the time, I don't use X11 at all.
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