From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 16 13:40:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08506 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shale.csir.co.za (shale.csir.co.za [146.64.46.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08400 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:39:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: (from reg@localhost) by shale.csir.co.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA02934; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 22:37:48 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from reg) Message-ID: <19981016223748.B23411@shale.csir.co.za> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 22:37:48 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com, peter@taronga.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ABOUT BSD References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from sbabkin@dcn.att.com on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:45:28PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:45:28PM -0400, sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote: > > From: peter@taronga.com [SMTP:peter@taronga.com] > > > > >* 12MB of RAM > > > > 16M if you run X, but 32M if you're going to run Netscape. > > > For Netscape 3.x 16M is OK, but it needs at least > 50M of swap space. Come on... I managed to get Netscape 3.x running with only 8MB and 40MB of swap space on a 386DX/40. Took about 5 minutes to load, and if you loaded any big pages the kernel would shoot it down :) Ran the 386 for 2 years (340MB hard disk)... 40 hours or so for my hacked 'make world' (built dir by dir rather than target by target :) -Jeremy -- | ------------------------------------------------------ --+-- "Maybe tomorrow will be better than today, | or maybe it will not come at all..." - Pam Thum | ------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message