I've managed to install BSD on a 200MHz system (4GB hard drive). The folks at the MWCS were so impressed they asked me to do a demo. It seems to be working really well. I've even got KDE running (not enough room for Gnome). I don't have the sound configured yet. Can anybody think of something to wow some *NIX newbies?
I was planning on letting them play around on the machine for 45 minutes while I talk about the similarities and differences between BSD and Linux. I'm a BSD newbie myself (It's been about a week since I got it running) so I'm not sure of what I can say.
Later Mike
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
I've managed to install BSD on a 200MHz system (4GB hard drive). Thefolks at the MWCS were so impressed they asked me to do a demo. It seems
A related Linux blog:
13 Apps to install on a Slow Computer
http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/03/13-applications-to-install-on-ubu...
-- Bill
Bill Reid wrote:
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
I've managed to install BSD on a 200MHz system (4GB hard drive).The folks at the MWCS were so impressed they asked me to do a demo. It seems
A related Linux blog:
13 Apps to install on a Slow Computer
http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/03/13-applications-to-install-on-ubu...
-- Bill
Useful link there. I have another slow machine coming in in a little while (then going out again really soon). If the hard drive is bigger then I will absolutely include some of those apps.
In the meantime I have to figure out how to get the sound running on the FreeBSD box to do any of the multimedia stuff on the page. A lot of the other apps require Gnome to be installed. Can it be done in 700 MB on the hard drive? I'll look at Gnumeric. I think that may be the one for the demo.
Later Mike
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