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xfree86 on old pc

  • 28-10-2003 12:05am
    #1
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭


    i have an old pentium 133 with 16 mb of ram and i was wondering if it would run freebsb + xfree86 with a very basic windows manager
    it can run windows 3.1 fine but would this be too much for it?


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  • #2
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    AFAIK something like TWM will need about 32Mb to be any way responsive - you don't want the machine to be swapping in and out all the time.


  • #3
    vigos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭vigos


    Have to agree, even with 32 Mb running X can be quite sluggish.

    However here's a useful website for running linux on old PC's

    http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/oldpc/


  • #4
    niallb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,771 ✭✭✭niallb


    No problem!
    Did you want to run any applications too :-)

    Seriously, take a look at Vector linux.
    I know you want to run freebsd, but take
    your list of reasonable software from vector.
    They aim at running on 16M of RAM.
    (Pity the reviews of it put it on machines with 128M RAM
    on the b.. graphics card.)

    There are some really tiny window managers,
    xfce is a good tradeoff in size with a huge feature set.

    Smallest I've seen is at http://ratpoison.sourceforge.net/
    It gave me hours extra battery life on my laptop because
    it allowed me to stop swapping completely.
    Might suit you.

    NiallB


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