Per Backman wrote: - PB-> A practical minimum for running FreeBSD with X on a PC is PB-> 80486DX/2-66, 16Mb RAM, 2Mb SVGA-card and 200Mb Harddiskspace. - SD-> If this is true, then FreeBSD is less suitable for a survPC SD-> than Linux. My 486DX33, 8Mb RAM, 1Mb SVGA-card and 80Mb SD-> Harddiskspace happily runs X under Linux. - PB-> The practical minimum is probably what I have quoted, the PB-> absolute minimum is different, I wasn't talking "absolute minimum". My 486dx33 is running a "practical" X system. It even runs Netscape (bloated pig) at an acceptable speed. PB-> and to get the most out of it I would recommend at least PB-> a lot more of harddisk space. Linux + swap + X + wm + Netscape all fit on my 80meg HDD. Why would I need a lot more? PB-> It is not really worth buying any of the Linux or BSD PB-> distributions Linux is not expensive. CDs are available for $2 or it can be downloaded for free. PB-> for other SurvPC's than the newer ones, CLI Linux is an excellent option for old 386s (with 8meg RAM). They make excellent servers, routers, firewalls, Xterms, etc. SD-> a couple of two-floppy distributions come with X included PB-> I think I have missed them, where? There's muLinux (which I have used) and one called Xdenu (or something like that). Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
