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Subject: Re: Slow machine - I need FreeBSD
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 05:02 pm, Voicu Liviu wrote:
> > I have one VERY SLOW MACHINE - 486SX 25 MHZ, hdd only 100Mb, can I setup
> > FreeBSD on this machine? I need a very old version of FreeBSD, where I
> > can get it?
>
> 4.8 also will do the job ( I believe so )

Well while we are on the topic: Would there be any advantage of using 2.x or 
3.x instead of 4.x on such a machine? (I am not aware of any reasons why you 
would).

 - jacob

 
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