From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Nov 22 5:18:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from support.euronet.nl (support.euronet.nl [194.134.32.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5949E37B418 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 05:18:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by support.euronet.nl (8.11.3/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fAMDINo52892; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:18:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:18:23 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Smits To: Frits Westra Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an IBM P75? In-Reply-To: <200111202255.XAA29212@smtp.pcmnet.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Frits Westra wrote: > Hello all, > > The last couple of weeks I've been browsing through many FreeBSD > websites but I still can't make up my mind whether switching to > FreeBSD is a good idea or not. > > This is the vintage pc that's available for FreeBSD: > > IBM PC330 (Pentium 75) > 16 MB RAM > 540 MB IDE HDD > 33k6 Modem > There is no CD player (yet) > Currently it has Win95, which I want to remove. > Hello Fritz, I started using FreeBSD a couple of months ago on a pentium 133, which would work fine. If I would know how to operate properly. According to the Complete FreeBSD Handbook' it should even work on a 486 with your specifications. Please note that all graphical applications (as Netscape / opera) do use a lot of CPU. And do not try the FTP-install through your modem :-) Grtz, Marc Wanadoo, http://www.wanadoo.nl/ Marc Smits, Wanadoo helpdesk Muiderstraat 1; Postbus 11095, 1001 GB Amsterdam T +31 20 5355 666, F +31 20 5355 195, E marcs@support.wanadoo.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message