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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!olivea!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Great Expectation Message-ID: <hastyCJFr3n.EAA@netcom.com> Keywords: BSD Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CJEson.M2w@eng_ser1.ie.cuhk.hk> <haley.758224829@scws12> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 22:42:57 GMT Lines: 49 In article <haley.758224829@scws12> haley@scws12.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes: >hkng2@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Ng Hin-Kwong Benson) writes: > >>Hi, > >> Someone told me FreeBSD no longer support 4MB 486. >I doubt this very much. You would however have some trouble using X >with less than 8 megs. > >> Coherent is a good check point of well balanced memory and >>functionality, at least from what I have been told. > >Having used Coherent, I can say this: it's at the *trailing* edge of >Unix-like systems. This is not to say it's a bad product, just that >you get what you pay for... >(For those of you who point out that FreeBSD and NetBSD are free, I >will point out that they are merely free of COST. You pay your dues in >bug reports and world rebuilds.) Hmm.. If you get FreeBSD I doubt that you will have to do world rebuilds very often if any unless you go to shared library support > >> BSD is good but what's the point if I cant even use it with 4MB >>ram in even just a text mode?! > >You can use it just fine in text mode on 4 megs. I do, on a 386-40. If >FreeBSD in it's current release is requiring 8 megs, something is >wrong. > >HOWEVER, when I do a world rebuild, it takes about 18 hours. I am led >to believe (and do) that increasing my memory to 8 megs would speed >this up a great deal. > >-- >Hacksaw Well, Herb just posted that he got a 386sx-16 booting on 2MB. I would not dream of running X unless I have 8MB of RAM. -- free unix, tcp/ip, X, gcc, sound: freebsd at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X