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Date:      Thu, 07 Feb 2002 02:07:39 -0700
From:      "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
To:        hacker@bolingbroke.com, piotrk@olsztyn.tpsa.pl
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hardware requirements
Message-ID:  <F1300i3ztDP25BkLMTl00019b4e@hotmail.com>

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>On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Piotr Kryszk wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to install (and use, of course):
> >     FreeBSD
> >     X Windows
> >     Netscape (or the other browser)
> > on the computer Pentium133, 32MB RAM
>
>Yes, it's very possible, although you might find X Windows running slow in
>just 32MB of RAM.  I'm running FreeBSD 4.5 on a '386, although without X,
>and it works just fine.

I hope you don't make buildworld on that 386. :-)

To the original poster: Opera would likely work okay on such a system, and 
would be compatible with more websites than Netscape 3.x. It isn't free, 
though.

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