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On Nov 5, 2004, at 10:17 PM, Jay O'Brien wrote:

> I thought I would bring this old machine (inherited from my 89 yr old
> m-i-l who passed away in August) on 5.2.1 to get a feel for it;

you may want to put 5.3 on it.  Supposed to release this weekend 
according to a note earlier.

I only use FreeBSD for server work so I cannot comment on memory 
requirements for running X etc

Chad