From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Jun 5 21:05:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15434 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 21:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stratos.net (pm3-4-5.stratos.net [207.86.132.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15411 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 21:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drifter@stratos.net) From: drifter@stratos.net Received: (from drifter@localhost) by stratos.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id XAA02201; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 23:55:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980605235509.B1214@stratos.net> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 23:55:09 -0400 To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jackv@earthling.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD Linux emulation References: <199806050654.BAA00629@dyson.iquest.net> <199806050816.BAA02555@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i Comment: Amancio's and John Dyson's To: addresses were intentionally cut out -- trying to avoid duplicate mail! (I can't be sure jackv is a regular mailing list subscriber...) In-Reply-To: <199806050816.BAA02555@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 01:16:38AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 01:16:38AM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > Star Office runs reasonably well over here: > > FreeBSD 3.0 -current, PPro 200Mhz , 96MB of memory. > > Matrox Millenium 4MB > XFree86 3.3.1 > > color depth 16bit > resolution 1024x768 My system runs with 48M of memory on a Pentium 150, for what it's worth. I have an ATI Graphics Pro Turbo Mach64 graphics card with 2M of memory, running under the same resolution and color depth. As far as I'm concerned, that should be plenty of strength to run a word processing program. But -- hey! -- "vi" has served me well. -- drifter@stratos.nospam.net (remove nospam to send) "Ever notice that in every commercial about the Internet, advertising geniuses can't resist having a bunch of kids staring into a monitor, awe- struck, looking at a whale jumping out of the ocean? Or is it just me?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message