Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:58:18 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1 Message-ID: <C63B888D-EEA4-47BB-B282-7E3270AD40AF@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060729200833.GC11595@sysadm.stc> References: <20060724073743.17345.qmail@web32510.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200607241415.k6OEFDNT008738@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <80f4f2b20607240750r57f57ae5k8130f033cdad29b8@mail.gmail.com> <20060729200833.GC11595@sysadm.stc>
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On Jul 29, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Igor Robul wrote: > 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 :-) Agreed. The best solution available for FreeBSD with this type of a machine would be to set it up as a low-traffic fileserver / web / print server :). -Garrett
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