From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 29 20:08:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19CC16A4DD for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:08:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from igorr@speechpro.com) Received: from speechpro.ru (speech-tech-2.ip.PeterStar.net [81.3.190.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922EB43D5F for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:08:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from igorr@speechpro.com) Received: from [192.168.2.26] (helo=sysadm.stc) by s1.stc with esmtp (Exim 4.53 (FreeBSD)) id 1G6v6n-0000yM-8V for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:08:25 +0400 Received: from localhost.stc ([127.0.0.1] helo=sysadm.stc) by sysadm.stc with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1G6v6v-00034x-Kj for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:08:33 +0400 Received: (from igorr@localhost) by sysadm.stc (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k6TK8X1m011838 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:08:33 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from igorr) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:08:33 +0400 From: Igor Robul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060729200833.GC11595@sysadm.stc> References: <20060724073743.17345.qmail@web32510.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200607241415.k6OEFDNT008738@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <80f4f2b20607240750r57f57ae5k8130f033cdad29b8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20607240750r57f57ae5k8130f033cdad29b8@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archived: Yes Subject: Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:08:29 -0000 On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:50:40AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > A P1 with 32MB should be sufficient albeit painful, but I wouldn't use > any large scale desktop/window managers (such as KDE/Gnome), I'd > probably use one of the light weights like TWM (and ION?), or maybe a > medium weight (WMaker?), and no more. I'm very sorry to say this but Pentium 1 + 32 Mb RAM will be not usable as replacement for Windows 98 + Word 97. Just imagine running OpenOffice.org with 32Mb of RAM :-) I think that P1/32Mb is good example of PC on which Win98+Word97 is optimal as office suite :-)