Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:17:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> To: Rob <nospam@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5-Current on Pentium-I with old hardware: still risky? Message-ID: <20040418151411.I34064@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <40827EBB.2070401@users.sourceforge.net> References: <40827EBB.2070401@users.sourceforge.net>
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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)
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