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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!noc.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!husc-news.harvard.edu!husc.harvard.edu!scws12!haley Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Great Expectation Message-ID: <haley.758224829@scws12> From: haley@scws12.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) Date: 10 Jan 94 18:00:29 GMT References: <CJEson.M2w@eng_ser1.ie.cuhk.hk> Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Keywords: BSD NNTP-Posting-Host: scws12.harvard.edu Lines: 33 hkng2@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Ng Hin-Kwong Benson) writes: >Hi, > Someone told me FreeBSD no longer support 4MB 486. I doubt this very much. You would however have some trouble using X with less than 8 megs. > Coherent is a good check point of well balanced memory and >functionality, at least from what I have been told. Having used Coherent, I can say this: it's at the *trailing* edge of Unix-like systems. This is not to say it's a bad product, just that you get what you pay for... (For those of you who point out that FreeBSD and NetBSD are free, I will point out that they are merely free of COST. You pay your dues in bug reports and world rebuilds.) > BSD is good but what's the point if I cant even use it with 4MB >ram in even just a text mode?! You can use it just fine in text mode on 4 megs. I do, on a 386-40. If FreeBSD in it's current release is requiring 8 megs, something is wrong. HOWEVER, when I do a world rebuild, it takes about 18 hours. I am led to believe (and do) that increasing my memory to 8 megs would speed this up a great deal. -- Hacksaw