From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 3 6: 8:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F8D37B4CF for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 06:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28971 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:08:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04854 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:08:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G3GCM500.MLZ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:08:29 -0500 Message-ID: <3A02C705.ED5D43C@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 09:09:09 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ernst de Haan Cc: Micheal O Dowd , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail References: <000a01c042c0$c5fcb180$a58391c2@nolimits> <20001103005723.B1307@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ernst de Haan wrote: > > 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 That should be enough to run X really. I used to run X (back in the 2.x days) on a 300MB partition. Netscape WILL be slow, but usuable (just be prepared to wait a Looong time for it to start). Also, be sure you get Navigator instead of Communicator (unless you really really want to use the builtin news and mail), since it has a smaller memory footprint and generally starts much faster on older machines. Also, be prepared to spend a lot of time swapping if you plan to run X with 12mb of ram. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message