release 6.1

[Mike Jeays]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 10:43 -0700, jdow wrote:
> From: "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013 at student.uu.se>
> 
> > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:49:42PM +0300, mehmet gogebakan wrote:
> >> i would like to install 6.1-RELEASE to my computer , configuration is:
> >>  
> >> 128 MB SDRAM
> >> LG cdrom 52x
> >> 8 MB Grafic card 
> >> 40 gb hd
> >> p3 800 mhz processor 
> >> azza motherboard 
> >>  
> >> could you please tell me whether this configuration is suitable,  if not
> >> tell me the minimum configuration it should be..
> > 
> > Running 6.1 on that should not be any problem.
> > 
> > In fact you could take a computer with only half the RAM of the above, half
> > the disk space, and half the CPU speed, and still not have a problem running
> > FreeBSD 6.1.
> 
> I would suppose you could run it in an even smaller machine if you
> had the patience. (After all you CAN run <gasp> Windows XP on a 100MHz
> machine with 32 megs of ram if you are REALLY REALLY patient.)
> 
> The above machine might benefit from additional ram if he intends to
> do mail filtering on the machine. Tools like SpamAssassin eat ram for
> lunch and leave very little for dinner.
> 
> {^_-}   Joanne
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-- 
I run 6.0 on a Pentium 100 with 128MB.  It is very responsive 
at the command line, but unusably slow with KDE or GNOME and 
apps like Firefox - although they do work. With XFCE, it is not 
too bad; just needs a little patience.

Why do I bother? I have had the machine since 1997, and it 
has never failed. It has been powered up almost continuously, 
and serves as a backup device every night.  When it breaks, it is
out of here.