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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing Freebsd
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 01:17:59 -0700
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To: Henriette <mkhali01@west.isd77.k12.mn.us>

Henriette wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I would just like to know, would it be wise to install Freebsd on a normal
> 486DX2-66MHz, with 16 mb of ram. If you are a advanced user that uses a
> PPP account for internet use would it be good to switch to freebsd?

If you're just trying to do news/email/WWW then you can certainly do
everything you want to do with a 486 DX2-66, 16MB of RAM and FreeBSD.
I have several configurations like this and they're all very solid
workhorse machines.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project