From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 22:52:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2E137B405 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16YiPf-0006L6-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 06:52:07 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 6BCC713040 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:52:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1001) id B55C922591; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:52:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:52:06 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware requirements Message-ID: <20020207065206.GD7234@raggedclown.net> References: <3C6223C6.4077E8EB@olsztyn.tpsa.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C6223C6.4077E8EB@olsztyn.tpsa.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:50:46AM +0100, Piotr Kryszk wrote: > Dear Sir, > > Is it possible to install (and use, of course): > FreeBSD Yes, easily. > X Windows Just about, but it will run very slowly. > Netscape (or the other browser) Netscape eats memory for breakfast. > on the computer Pentium133, 32MB RAM > In short, FreeBSD will run just tickety boo. X11 really needs 64MB these days to be nice to use, and the CPU is a bit underpowered. Netscape..well, see comment above. In console mode there are browsers like lynx available, but they will seem very primitive to you if you are used to Netscape/Explorer etc but they can be used reasonably well on many sites, if you can do without the crud :) ... -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message