From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 25 8: 7:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA7B37B405 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:07:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from office (ool-182f5bd5.dyn.optonline.net [24.47.91.213]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000)) with SMTP id <0GND005AH650HN@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:07:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:07:58 -0500 From: we'uns Subject: size To: hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <001a01c175cb$59ccf620$6401a8c0@office> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_TkOoiZJBvPaa1TKCLWtIzg)" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_TkOoiZJBvPaa1TKCLWtIzg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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. 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? Thanks much for taking time out to consider this email. 'Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving and will have a great holiday season. Regards, Paul Adams --Boundary_(ID_TkOoiZJBvPaa1TKCLWtIzg) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT

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.

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?

Thanks much for taking time out to consider this email. 'Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving and will have a great holiday season.

Regards,

Paul Adams

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