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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: minimum system requirements for freebsd
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:49:31 -0800
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To: Julian Price <percy@maths.tcd.ie>
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Julian Price wrote:
> I am running 2.1.5-STABLE on a 486DX2/66 (clocked to 80MHz), with 12Mb RAM,
> a 1Mb PCI graphics card and a 500Mb Hdd (26Mb of swap) and I am continually
> having problems:

I'm not surprised.  I'd have configured at least 64MB of swap for what
you want to do.  Netscape and java are enormous pigs, to say nothing of
X itself. :-)
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project