From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 15:58: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heinz.jollem.com (c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.104.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE6437B4E5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 15:57:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ernst@localhost) by heinz.jollem.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eA2NvOt01354; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 00:57:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ernst) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 00:57:23 +0100 From: Ernst de Haan To: Micheal O Dowd Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20001103005723.B1307@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> References: <000a01c042c0$c5fcb180$a58391c2@nolimits> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000a01c042c0$c5fcb180$a58391c2@nolimits>; from mehally@eircom.net on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:28:47PM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Micheal, I'm running FreeBSD on a Pentium 2-400/128MB, a Celeron 566/128MB and on a 486 DX2-66/16MB. FreeBSD runs fine on the 486, but X (with KDE and Netscape 4.x) is horrible. Very slow. It takes a few minutes to startup X, KDE and Netscape. But once Netscape is running, the speed is `acceptable'. So it can be used to visit internet sites (HotMail mainly), but don't expect too much of the graphical part. I think your harddisk is too small if you want to run X, but if you don't, then it should be just fine. Ernst Micheal O Dowd wrote: > can i run freeBSD on my IBM Thinkpad 750C > 486 33 > 12 mb > 540 HD > > thanks > micheal o dowd > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message