From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 13:53:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 309B614EE6 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:53:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1159.bossig.com [208.26.241.159]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00991; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37F7C1F8.4A3BDD1F@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 13:52:08 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Schneiders Cc: Oleg Ogurok , Ilia Chipitsine , Greg Lehey , Kenneth Wayne Culver , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc Schneiders wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Oleg Ogurok wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I was under the impression, (maybe I'm wrong here) that 4.0-RELEASE will > > > > > have nearly all the drivers configurable to run as modules or compiled > > > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > > it smells like it will be able to run on 4Mb of RAM. > > > is that correct ? > > > > > I am not sure about this, but it will definetely smell (stink) on 4mb ;) > > People, RAM doesn't cost big $$$ anymore ;-) > > > > -Oleg. > > > > Thought prices were up again quite a lot. Here in any case. > > Anyway, there are 386 PC's which simply can't store more RAM or which > have 4 * 1 MB and would need 4 * 4 MB, costing $ 50 (in my country). It > would be nice if these old PC's were usable, esp. for people to try > FreeBSD. You cannot, of course, sacrifice anything useful for that reason. > It would be nice though, if possible. The problem is the response of such a system. They could think FreeBSD is terrible and it is really their lack of RAM. If you advertise such a system, you also have to warn about the possible lack of performance. Kent > > Marc > > -- > Marc Schneiders > > marc@venster.nl > marc@oldserver.demon.nl > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message