On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:11:51AM +1000, Andrew Reilly typed: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:31:14PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > There are also the issues of CPU horesepower and quantity of RAM that > > are potential problems on hardware that is at minimum 6 years old. > > Everything about this project shouts DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!! to me. > > Oh, I don't know. I'm running 7-STABLE (February vintage: it's > too slow to rebuild very often) on an old P-III/500 box with > 512M of RAM. Works beautifully for what I'm asking of it (not > much). That box probably started with something of the 3- or > 4- vintage and upgraded continuously in place. I do remember > giving it a new disk drive when I did the step to UFS2, though. I run FreeBSD 8.0 on a soekris 100 Mhz "i586" with 64 MB. Smoothly. RubenReceived on Thu Sep 17 2009 - 05:41:36 UTC
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