From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 19:05:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2D416A4E2 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:05:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail29.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail29.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C2443D78 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:05:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail29.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k6RJ5AWS028818 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:05:11 +1000 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6RJ5AAk013825; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:05:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k6RJ59ex013824; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:05:09 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:05:09 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Cy Schubert Message-ID: <20060727190509.GH715@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20060726070644.GA740@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200607271413.k6REDZpl090879@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NzX0AQGjRQPusK/O" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607271413.k6REDZpl090879@cwsys.cwsent.com> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop... X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:05:23 -0000 --NzX0AQGjRQPusK/O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2006-Jul-27 07:13:35 -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: >In message <20060726070644.GA740@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>, Peter Jeremy=20 >writes: >> On Tue, 2006-Jul-25 13:59:28 -0400, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote: >> >I have FreeBSD 6.1 running on an IBM ThinkPad 600e, 64 MB RAM, PII 366 >> >MHZ. >>=20 >> What luxury. I'm trying to get a usable FreeBSD 6.1 on a P-150. > >I recently retired a P-133 (my firewall) with 48MB and a P-120 (my old=20 >ports testbed) with 80MB. It's very much doable. Maybe I should have been more explicit. I'm still running a P-120 firewall and it's quite satisfactory. X11, and especially things like Gnome, need lots more CPU and RAM than a typical firewall. --=20 Peter Jeremy --NzX0AQGjRQPusK/O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEyQ5l/opHv/APuIcRAmCgAJ9jNiQZwvpDYekrIeGeOOaqh8exbgCeOX7O 9BfX3saX5yBAve1O+KU4xKE= =XsMq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzX0AQGjRQPusK/O--