From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 06:17:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727BA16A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 06:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5044043D4C for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 06:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (ohoyer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3IDHLpG034089; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:17:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)i3IDHKfR034086; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:17:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) X-Authentication-Warning: gaff.hhhr.ision.net: ohoyer owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:17:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer Sender: ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net To: Rob In-Reply-To: <40827EBB.2070401@users.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <20040418151411.I34064@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <40827EBB.2070401@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5-Current on Pentium-I with old hardware: still risky? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:17:18 -0000 On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: > When I read about problems with early adoption of 5.X, I mainly > encounter risks related to extremely large RAM, multi processors, > or very new hardware. > > My simple and old Pentium-1 PC may therefore a very low risk system for > installing 5-Current. Is that right? Or am making a big mistake here? Hi! Well, -current is always bleeding edge, and even on "standard" hardware it might produce weird results. OTOH, I have a 233MHZ Pentium-MMX (Socket7)-dual CPU as Workstation here, with 5.2.1-R, and its running fine for everydays application. The critical issue here is RAM, I have 128MB in it, and well, its enough to have firefox running, but in most cases, I only need some xterms... So I would say, that your hardware (given that there are more than 16MB RAM in there) will run fine. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)