Re: 8086/88 80286 ||| 80386 80486 Pentium ...

[Jacek Lipkowski]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, MagerValp wrote:

> You could also look into Free/OpenBSD (www.(open|free)bsd.org). If
> security is important obsd should be an interesting alternative. 8 MB
> should work (not verified though), but it probably won't be fast.
> FreeBSD i know for a fact works on an 8 MB machine, although the
> installer was prone to crashing if you played around too much with the
> settings.

ok, so let's start a os/distribution war :)

last i checked freelsd required 5Mb to install/4Mb to run. 
on the linux front the least demanding has allways been slackware since
you can setup swap before the instalation, and (at least for slackware
3.6) you didn't have to load the install image into a ramdisk

jacek

ps. isn't this getting sightly off topic ? :)