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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!nic.hookup.net!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!aci.cvut.cz!rhino.cis.vutbr.cz!varda!kas From: kas@varda.ics.muni.cs (Jan Kasprzak) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Great Expectation Date: 19 Jan 1994 15:49:30 GMT Organization: Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic Lines: 40 Message-ID: <2hjkqa$d5@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz> References: <CJEson.M2w@eng_ser1.ie.cuhk.hk> <JKH.94Jan11175600@whisker.lotus.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: varda.ics.muni.cz jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <CJEson.M2w@eng_ser1.ie.cuhk.hk> hkng2@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Ng Hin-Kwong Benson) writes: > Someone told me FreeBSD no longer support 4MB 486. > Is it true? [... some lines deleted ...] >March time frame). It should also be noted that 4MB is unrealistic >for just about ANY flavor of UNIX, excepting perhaps those designed to >be _small_ from the ground up, like MINIX or Coherent. FreeBSD is >not Coherent, and probably never will be. If you're looking for >something really stripped down, you're probably looking in the wrong >place. Buy Coherent, it's only $99! > Jordan Oh! DON'T BUY ANYTHING! `If you are looking for something really stripped down' , you probably should try Linux. It's smaller, but still full UN*X. (With virtual memory, X, ...). I use Linux on 386/40DX, 4M RAM, 73 M Linux partition. With XFree86 (on 4M X is not fast :-), but in character mode it flies. I _don't_ want to start discussion "Is *BSD better than Linux?". Please, flames about Linux/*BSD send to /dev/null. I used both, but have no final opinion about it. Yenya Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak \ while (*p++ = *q++) ; Student of Comp. Sc. \ Dennis Ritchie kas@erebor.ics.muni.cz \----------------------------------------- kas@muni.cz \ MS-DOS ?! No, thank you... (Brno, Czech Rep., Europe) \ I have Linux - free clone of UNIX! -- Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak \ while (*p++ = *q++) ; Student of Comp. Sc. \ Dennis Ritchie kas@erebor.ics.muni.cz \----------------------------------------- kas@muni.cz \ MS-DOS ?! No, thank you...