Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:08:33 +0400 From: Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1 Message-ID: <20060729200833.GC11595@sysadm.stc> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20607240750r57f57ae5k8130f033cdad29b8@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060724073743.17345.qmail@web32510.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200607241415.k6OEFDNT008738@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <80f4f2b20607240750r57f57ae5k8130f033cdad29b8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:50:40AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > 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. I'm very sorry to say this but Pentium 1 + 32 Mb RAM will be not usable as replacement for Windows 98 + Word 97. Just imagine running OpenOffice.org with 32Mb of RAM :-) I think that P1/32Mb is good example of PC on which Win98+Word97 is optimal as office suite :-)
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