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[Jesus Cash]

P100, 16 megs of RAM. However if I wanted to shell out 75 dollars I 
could probably get the 32 meg upgrade available for it.

-B

mj001 wrote:

> Jesus Cash wrote:
>
>> Mandrake was my Linux as choice as well. I totally see what you mean. 
>> These major distros are getting to be just like MS. Proprietary and 
>> bloated. I've mentioned this before, but I tried install Red Hat 9 on 
>> my dinky laptop, thinking I could just strip it down to basics. Nope, 
>> just said your computer is crap and can't install Red Hat 9.  Once I 
>> can get some working floppies (mine all crapped out when I carried 
>> them unprotected in my laptop bag) I'll install FreeBSD on it. Maybe 
>> I'll try my hand at loading OS/2 (I'm a little worried about trying 
>> to run XFree86 or any desktop on it).
>>
>> -B
>>
>> RexFelis wrote:
>>
>>> Here's another example why I use FreeBSD now...
>>>
>>> Why does it have to be such a hassle for me to
>>> install a single program that I need under Linux?
>>> I was trying to make custom recorded audio CDs
>>> (not music CDs), like I used to in Win98 using
>>> Voyetra's software.  I looked around and found
>>> Audacity.  It looked good... but Linux Mandrake
>>> made me crazy with dependencies.  FreeBSD just
>>> downloaded and installed them.  3.5 days of
>>> frustration in Linux, 35 minutes of surfing the
>>> web while the program was downloaded, patched,
>>> custom compiled and installed on FreeBSD.
>>>
>>> Linux seems to be heading in a couple of
>>> directions I disagree with.  Dependency hell
>>> whenever you try to do what YOU want to do is one
>>> of them.  (Mandrake works great as long as you
>>> only use Mandrake-prepackaged software.)  The
>>> other is the growing commercialization of the
>>> major distros.  I don't want shareholders telling
>>> me how to run my computer!
>>>
>>> I agree with JC, FreeBSD is fun.  I was having
>>> fun with Linux, until I realized what fun really
>>> is.  :)  Freedom is always more fun.
>>>
>>> Shannon
>>>
>>> --- Jesus Cash <jesuscash at cox.net> wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> I'm pretty much in the same boat as Shannon
>>>> here. Maybe not as advanced in Linux, but there was just something 
>>>> in Linux
>>>> that I felt was off. I've been telling people I've never said I love
>>>> an OS before, but I love FreeBSD.
>>>>
>>>> As for learning curve? What learning curve? :P
>>>> I pretty much just threw myself in and have been figuring stuff out 
>>>> for
>>>> myself. Most importantly, it's been a FUN learning experience.
>>>>
>>>> -B
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
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>
> How big is your laptop?  I used to run FreeBSD and X-Windows (but not 
> KDE or GNOME) on a 486DX33 (non-laptop) with 20MB.  It worked, but was 
> somewhat slow.  A Pentium 120 with 48 MB runs KDE 3.0 quite well.  But 
> a NEC Versa LX laptop with 64 MB is impossibly slow - I suspect it may 
> be the disk speed.
>
>