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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Notebook Date: 25 May 1995 21:44:43 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3q2tob$fdv@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3q0dkl$1v9@news.nde.state.ne.us> <SPP.95May24215539@parallax.syrinx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <SPP.95May24215539@parallax.syrinx.com>, Stephen P Potter <spp@digital.net> wrote: >In article <3q0dkl$1v9@news.nde.state.ne.us> chammack@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us (Chris Hammack) writes: > I have a older no-name brand 486DX33 notebook sitting in the corner. A > quick perusal reveals a 120MB HD, and 8MB of RAM. It's grayscale, but I > > Any chance of making this puppy into a portable unix box? > >Chances are pretty good. You can probably put linux on it, it runs on just Uhh.. Did you bother to look at the newsgroup in which this was posted?? Such blatant inferences that FreeBSD won't do the job are not appreciated here, and Linux advocacy should stay in its own newsgroup where it belongs (the Linux users wouldn't appreciate me evangelising FreeBSD in their own groups, I am sure, which is why I don't!). There's no reason why that laptop wouldn't run FreeBSD just as nicely. I have such a configuration myself and it works just fine. Contrary to what some of the Linux die-hards will tell you, you can also run FreeBSD just fine on a 4MB box. It won't be incredibly fast (nor will the Linux one and I know, having tried it personally) but it WILL work. For some tasks, it will even work rather well. Jordan