From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 29 20:54:20 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 5375816A4E1 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:54:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout7.cac.washington.edu (mxout7.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01DCA43D72 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:54:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout7.cac.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.06/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k6TKsFoj020455 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:54:15 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.40] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k6TKsFlD032745 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:54:15 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) 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> X-Gpgmail-State: !signed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:58:18 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296, Antispam-Engine: 2.4.0.264935, Antispam-Data: 2006.7.29.133433 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' 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 20:54:20 -0000 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