Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop...

Peter Jeremy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2006-Jul-27 07:13:35 -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
>In message <[email protected]>, Peter Jeremy 
>writes:
>> On Tue, 2006-Jul-25 13:59:28 -0400, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:
>> >I have FreeBSD 6.1 running on an IBM ThinkPad 600e, 64 MB RAM, PII 366
>> >MHZ.
>> 
>> What luxury.  I'm trying to get a usable FreeBSD 6.1 on a P-150.
>
>I recently retired a P-133 (my firewall) with 48MB and a P-120 (my old 
>ports testbed) with 80MB. It's very much doable.

Maybe I should have been more explicit.  I'm still running a P-120
firewall and it's quite satisfactory.  X11, and especially things
like Gnome, need lots more CPU and RAM than a typical firewall.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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