From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 28 14:18:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23863 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:18:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from info1.info.tampere.fi (info1.info.tampere.fi [212.63.6.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23827 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:18:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lmkjuksi@info1.info.tampere.fi) Received: from info1.info.tampere.fi (pc100.soitto.info.tampere.fi [212.63.8.100]) by info1.info.tampere.fi (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id AAA26431; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:17:08 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <35E71F55.9FE14D7C@info1.info.tampere.fi> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:21:26 +0300 From: "Jukka Similä" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Boothman CC: Martin Poulin , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Back on topic... References: <3.0.3.32.19980827152357.009063e0@honk.org> <35E6DB4D.5C9A552F@boothman.easynet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Boothman wrote: > > Being a poor school, I'll get a 486DX2 with maybe 8MB RAM to work with. > > The machine certainly doesn't need X, so I hope this hardware will be > enough! > My opinion: It will certainly be enough, if you don't care about small lag sometimes. I had 486dx2 66Mhz with 8 MB and I got X running - worked much better than Win95 with the same machine , and I even made some 3D desing and rendering. - but I didn't have anykind of network installed. Now I got 486Dx2 80Mhz 24MB and it runs X just fine. (however I'm planning to buy some new hardware - maybe 166mhz pentium and a scsi harddisk - I am running out of disk space and I can't play mp3's because of a lazy CPU) Jukka Simila To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message