Old slow computers can still crank away (Formerly RE: Portsnap vs CSup)

2009-03-20 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:48:26 +0100 From: woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: millenia2...@hotmail.com CC: f...@bomgardner.net; ch...@monochrome.org; cho...@charter.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Portsnap vs CSup compiling the kernel on that could take several days

Re: Old slow computers can still crank away (Formerly RE: Portsnap vs CSup)

2009-03-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
for sure not KDE, but X and FreeBSD itself with good software running on it works FAST on 100Mhz machine with 48MB RAM. Yes compiling is slow, but normal usage is FAST. I never used gnome or KDE on it, ran Blackbox insted. of course it's fast. and even slower machines like 486/33

Re: Old slow computers can still crank away (Formerly RE: Portsnap vs CSup)

2009-03-20 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:12:12 -0400, Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:48:26 +0100 for sure not KDE, but X and FreeBSD itself with good software running on it works FAST on 100Mhz machine with 48MB RAM. Yes compiling is slow, but normal usage is