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Date:      Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:53:15 -0600
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Will FreeBSD run on an Intel Pentium II with 32MB RAM ??
Message-ID:  <d7195cff0602111953r2d7cc7a9l4298d281cceb538c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43EE966C.9010800@childeric.freeserve.co.uk>
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On 2/11/06, Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:46:48AM +0530, Pranav Peshwe wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>         I have a machine with an Intel Pentium II processor and 32 MB
> >>of RAM.Will i be able to run FreeBSD 5.4 on it ?
>
> Where are you? I have a biscuit box and a half of 72pin EDO and old SDRAM=
...

Same here.  But to answer, yes, it will run fine, albeit a
tad slow.  You will probably not want to try installing X11,
though I'm fairly certain it will run.  Poking kde atop that
would be a laugh.  Compiling jdk-1.5 would probably take
four-thousand moltons!

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