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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing Freebsd Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 01:17:59 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <31B7E5B7.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <01bb52f7.3f7ee0a0$12161d86@Dialin-018.Mankato.MSUS.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Henriette <mkhali01@west.isd77.k12.mn.us> Henriette wrote: > > Hi, > I would just like to know, would it be wise to install Freebsd on a normal > 486DX2-66MHz, with 16 mb of ram. If you are a advanced user that uses a > PPP account for internet use would it be good to switch to freebsd? If you're just trying to do news/email/WWW then you can certainly do everything you want to do with a 486 DX2-66, 16MB of RAM and FreeBSD. I have several configurations like this and they're all very solid workhorse machines. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project