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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Minimum requirements for FreeBSD? Date: 4 Dec 1994 08:12:12 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3brtks$d0o@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <DCHAPMAN.94Dec3092141@access.victoria.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <DCHAPMAN.94Dec3092141@access.victoria.bc.ca>, David Chapman <dchapman@access.victoria.bc.ca> wrote: >Can anyone tell me, or point me to, the minimum hardware requirements >for a FreeBSD system? I looked thru the FAQs on ftp.cdrom.com and >could not find this info. 386sx/16, 5MB of memory, and about 60MB of disk. >Also, most of the documents I have read say that there is certain >encryption technology that may not be exported from the US. Yeah, it's stupid but true. >However, >the INSTALL file for NetBSD 1.0 indicates that such software may be >exported to Canada. Is this correct? If so for NetBSD, what about >FreeBSD? The same law applies for all software, so IF it's legal for one it's legal for the other. (That is, unless certain distributors apply for and receive a special 'munitions' export license from the govt.) >Would this also hold true for the zcrypt* files used with Info-ZIP? Yep. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Unemployed, looking for permanant work in home #: (406) 586-0579 | CS/EE field.