Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 09:37:38 +0800 From: "Tan Juay Kwang" <jk.tan@pacific.net.sg> To: "Lorin Lund" <fbsd@wbs-inc.com>, "Piotr Kryszk" <piotrk@olsztyn.tpsa.pl>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: hardware requirements Message-ID: <MJEGJEKDFJPDIFJMIGLGMEPEDIAA.jk.tan@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <20020207152821.61A2822ADF@ns1.infowest.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > > I have it on a 35MB notebook. It runs slowly even though the > processor is > a 266. The hard drive in this notebook does not have fast seek times. > > I wonder how much RAM would be necessary to run all of that > without swapping? > > 2/6/2002 11:50:46 PM, Piotr Kryszk <piotrk@olsztyn.tpsa.pl> wrote: > > >Dear Sir, > > > >Is it possible to install (and use, of course): > > FreeBSD > > X Windows > > Netscape (or the other browser) > >on the computer Pentium133, 32MB RAM > > > >Thanks for any suggestion > > > >Your sincerely > > > >Piotr Kryszk > > Speaking from my own experience, I once had a P166 w/64MB of ram with FBSD 4.0. It ran absolutely fantastic as my home natd machine. I tried FVWM95 and it's acceptable but NS4 is a no-no. It will swap like nobody's biz. Later, I boost the amount of RAM up to 256MB, at a time when a 128MB SDRAM stick cost SGD17 (roughly US$10). The machine flies. Now I can even run KDE + Opera5 with no swapping and performance is really good, for a P166 that is. I even crunch seti@home in the background :) To the original poster, I think you can forget about KDE/Gnome. FVWM would be a more realistic WM and perhaps Opera. But like somebody else mentioned, Opera is not free, although you can use it in a freeware mode but you'll get the Advert bar on top, something which you may find intrusive. Regards, Juay Kwang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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