Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:50:40 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1 Message-ID: <80f4f2b20607240750r57f57ae5k8130f033cdad29b8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200607241415.k6OEFDNT008738@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <20060724073743.17345.qmail@web32510.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200607241415.k6OEFDNT008738@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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> That is pretty small. At the bare minimum level, you might be > able to get it up and running, but not be able to do much of any > real work on it without more memory. > > You didn't mention the amount of disk on the machine, but if you want > to run X (needed for a Gui) then it will take more that a couple of GB > and if you want KDE or Gnome to manage your Gui, it will take even more. > > I don't remember if Pentium I will do the trick or not, but probably > will, just awfully slowly. 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. A memory upgrade is strongly recommended if possible. -Jim Stapleton
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