Re: freebsd on a pentium 200mhz with 32mb ram
From: Jed Clear (clear_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 09/11/03
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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:20:49 GMT
jpd wrote:
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> In article <bjhtkr$n00$1@nsnmrro2-gest.nuria.telefonica-data.net>, GALZ wrote:
> > i've tried freebsd on an AMD Duron 700Hz and i've seen it's very faster than
> > linux and windows, of course.
> > i have an opportunity to get a old computer, exactly a pentium 200mhz with
> > 32mb of ram, and i would like how freebsd runs on it, if i can use X
> > windows, etc.
>
> You can. X runs more comfortably in 64MB though. But with a lot of swap
> you can get by. I'd not recommend trying mozilla (or even mozilla firebird :(
> with less that 128MB of RAM. But it still would be possible, albeit s l o w.
Beware if you have a mobo with the 430TX chipset. If you run more than
64MB of RAM on this, you can actually slow down as the chipset doesn't
(L2) cache it.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/cache/charCacheability-c.html
Also apparently the 430FX and 430VX chipsets.
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