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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing Freebsd Date: 31 May 1996 17:30:06 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4onaau$df@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bb52f7.3f7ee0a0$12161d86@dialin-018.mankato.msus.edu> <31B7E5B7.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Henriette wrote: > > 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'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. I've been doing all my FreeBSD development (and Usenet :) work on a 486/33 with 16 MB of RAM for more than a couple of years. It's not the fastest you could imagine, but it's as solid as your remaining hardware is. (Mine was a good old EISA board, and it never caused me grief.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)