Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:13:19 -0800 From: Wes Baehr <wbaehr@mac.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: question about bsd Message-ID: <B850EB0D.140C%wbaehr@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20011226215857.92AC137B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 12/26/01 2:00 PM, "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:56:16 -0600, Murphy, Derrick wrote: > >> I have an OLD 486 25Mhz monocrome screen toshiba laptop with 4 MB of ram and >> a floppy drive. The hd is 200Mb What kind of unix could i install on >> this? Im guessing it would have to be a pretty old version to work with so >> little. If anyone knows of any free unix versions that would work with >> this, please let me know ^_^ Thanks > > picobsd. > > you need like 12mbs of ram for freebsd Not true, I run freebsd 4.3-RELEASE on a 33mhz 486 with 8MB of RAM. Although the performance is worse than a lagging 28.8 dialup user, it still 'works'. (I gave the box the name 'latency' for its slowness :P) > > --- > doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net > > PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -iwes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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