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From: brian@anorak.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD (current) good for Laptops?
Date: 22 Nov 1996 14:31:37 -0000
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In article <56vb5k$k8j@news1.iamerica.net>,
AJ Musgrove <musgrove@xavier.varmm.com> writes:
: I have a IBM ThinkPad 486/DX 50mhz, 8M RAM, 170M hard disk, and an Active
: Matrix monitor. Yes, I realize the HD is small, but I was thinking of a
: minimum installation.
:
: Does this sound possible? Also, it would be nice to have the base
: development tools and the X package, but I really think i might be pushing
: the limits there. Any thoughts?
It should be fairly easy to put the base system (includes compiler), X and
the X libs/includes in 170Mb. I really would recommend at least 16Mb of
memory when running X. It ran for me on my laptop, but doing memory
intensive things killed the machine.
If you are stuck with 8Mb, I wouldn't bother loading the likes of emacs
and xv. You may also be better off running rxvt instead of xterm.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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