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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Easy Questions. . .
Date: 16 Jun 1995 20:12:22 +0200
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Kevin Lo <klo@gate.net> wrote:
>1) Would a 486sx/25 with 8 megs of ram and a 540 meg HD be sufficient
> to run FreeBSD, possibly XFree86?
The 8 megs won't make a Porsche when running X, and i wouldn't
recommend you to try a ``make world'' while X is running, but
otherwise this will be totally sufficient.
Another 8 meg of RAM will certainly give you more speed than upgrading
to a 486/40.
>3) Will XFree86 work with my stinky Oak video card <ugh>?
As with any VGA, it will suck. The Oak driver currently (3.1.1)
supports the OTI067 and OTI077 chipsets. Any other chipset could be
only operated with the 16-color server (slow) or the Monochrome
server.
(To set this straight: i'm just typing this running X on an ancient
ET3000-based VGA. This sucks too, of course. Doesn't mean you can't
work with it.)
>4) What's the meaning of life?
Hacking FreeBSD. :-)
>( ' __. ` ) * Finger For PGP Key * Windows 95 (Chicago) Beta Tester
^^^^^^^^^^
He said the ``W***'' word here!!! :)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)