From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 31 7:30:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from arutam.inch.com (ns.inch.com [207.240.140.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4751314CE0 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 07:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from your-name (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by arutam.inch.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/UTIL-INCH-2.0.0) with SMTP id KAA07337 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:30:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907311430.KAA07337@arutam.inch.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSd Chat list" Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:30:22 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: BSD lightness: Free/Net/Open Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As part of some talks about about a NY BSD users group I found a technical school using NetBSD. They mentioned a project of converting a number of old 486s to NetBSD. One of the topics that came up was which BSD would need less resources and run best with old hardware (assuming both Free/Net would install). From what I gather the project will be making the old 486s Xterminals. Could this be something that could be done with PicoBSD? Also what would me a MINIMUN usable amount of memory to run X. 16MB? These are computers other departments were throwing out so I don't think they have much of a budget to go around upgrading memory. I have always wanted to take a look at the other BSDs so I am looking forward to help them and see how NetBSD compares. They are also doing a BSD lab which sounds like it would be interesting too (research, students and faculty connectivity to the network...). I was very please to read from them all they are doing with BSDs. Although NetBSD seems their primary BSD they also have some FreeBSDs (although it seemed it was just a couple of them). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message