Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT..

[Ruben de Groot]

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.

Ruben