From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 17:34:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spade.pacific.net.sg (spade.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAAF537B41A for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:34:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.pacific.net.sg (smtp1.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.70]) by spade.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id g181Y1p05115; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 09:34:01 +0800 Received: from tanjkvaio (suntec01.i-dns.net [203.126.116.227]) by smtp1.pacific.net.sg with SMTP id g181Y0t10686; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 09:34:00 +0800 From: "Tan Juay Kwang" To: "Lorin Lund" , "Piotr Kryszk" , Subject: RE: hardware requirements Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 09:37:38 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <20020207152821.61A2822ADF@ns1.infowest.com> Importance: Normal 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 > -----Original Message----- > > I have it on a 35MB notebook. It runs slowly even though the > processor is > a 266. The hard drive in this notebook does not have fast seek times. > > I wonder how much RAM would be necessary to run all of that > without swapping? > > 2/6/2002 11:50:46 PM, Piotr Kryszk wrote: > > >Dear Sir, > > > >Is it possible to install (and use, of course): > > FreeBSD > > X Windows > > Netscape (or the other browser) > >on the computer Pentium133, 32MB RAM > > > >Thanks for any suggestion > > > >Your sincerely > > > >Piotr Kryszk > > Speaking from my own experience, I once had a P166 w/64MB of ram with FBSD 4.0. It ran absolutely fantastic as my home natd machine. I tried FVWM95 and it's acceptable but NS4 is a no-no. It will swap like nobody's biz. Later, I boost the amount of RAM up to 256MB, at a time when a 128MB SDRAM stick cost SGD17 (roughly US$10). The machine flies. Now I can even run KDE + Opera5 with no swapping and performance is really good, for a P166 that is. I even crunch seti@home in the background :) To the original poster, I think you can forget about KDE/Gnome. FVWM would be a more realistic WM and perhaps Opera. But like somebody else mentioned, Opera is not free, although you can use it in a freeware mode but you'll get the Advert bar on top, something which you may find intrusive. Regards, Juay Kwang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message