Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:30:43 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: "we'uns" <mpj900@optonline.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: size Message-ID: <20011125203043.A2219@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <001a01c175cb$59ccf620$6401a8c0@office>; from mpj900@optonline.net on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:07:58AM -0500 References: <001a01c175cb$59ccf620$6401a8c0@office>
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:07:58AM -0500, we'uns wrote:
> Greetings. I got this email address out of the FreeBSD Newsletter,
> issue#1. I'm not sure if you're the right guys to address such a
> query to so if this seems out of place I apologize, but perhaps
> you can direct it to the right folks.
These sorts of things should go to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.
> I've got an old P1 135 (I think, may be 125, can't remember),
> 1.7G HD, 32M RAM...in short, a dinosaur. I want to experiment with
> FreeBSD and would like to do so on a machine that is non-critical
> so I have time to learn it without being under the gun. I was
> reading in the newsletter that Dave Filo was using BSD on an old
> (probably wasn't old back in '97, haha!) P100, 32M RAM machine and
> that the release number for BSD then was 2.2 STABLE (what is
> "stable", or was that an aside by the author?). I've seen FreeBSD
> releases in the somewhat recent past at 3.4 I believe, and it has
> me wondering: will an older machine like mine will be large enough
> to handle the newer releases?
FreeBSD will run on your machine. The only problems you may have
is if you try to run some very large software packages it may be
excessively slow.
For more information please see the "FreeBSD Handbook" at
www.freebsd.org.
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