Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Harry Veltman
Which version and GUI will work best on the internet with my AT Pentium II 350MHz x86-based PC? Some web sites require Flash Player 8 or higher, and some require 128-bit encryption I think, but doesn't 40-bit encryption process data 3 times faster? How many bit encryption is the various

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:54:38 -0800, Harry Veltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which version and GUI will work best on the internet with my AT Pentium II 350MHz x86-based PC? Allthough the FreeBSD base system gets better and faster in each version, the additional software and the GUI toolkits that

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 11:36:58 Polytropon wrote: I can't answer your question regarding Flash and encryption; sadly, I never saw any need for this. Even if you get the software to work (which is a project in itself), performance will be very very bad. My parents have a similar machine

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 Oldie @ 1 GHz? You must be joking. I'd bite my hand off for such hardware. :-) well most of machines i use are 1Ghz and 512MB RAM. no need for

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 That's pretty much as low as I'd go for normal desktop usage. The machine you're describing, still makes for a good router or LAN resolver with low

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 01 December 2008 02:11:13 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:53:11 +0100, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 Oldie @ 1 GHz? You must

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:53:11 +0100, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 Oldie @ 1 GHz? You must be joking. I'd bite my hand off for such hardware. :-)

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 12:19:50 Wojciech Puchar wrote: We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 That's pretty much as low as I'd go for normal desktop usage. The machine you're

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
since OP already stated to want flash 8 with highbit encryption, you will need firefox and bunch of gstreamer-*/gnome stuff or linux emulation and a lot of good fortune when going with pluginwrapper. but not KDE and Gnome desktop running. firefox is quite fast compared to it

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 12:11:13 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:53:11 +0100, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 Oldie @ 1 GHz? You must

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Mister Olli
hi... Which version and GUI will work best on the internet with my AT Pentium II 350MHz x86-based PC? Some web sites require Flash Player 8 or higher, and some require 128-bit encryption I think, but doesn't 40-bit encryption process data 3 times faster? How many bit encryption is the

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
too... my absolute favorite and it boosted my productivity (after 2 weeks of configuringcustomizing) to a level no other GUI in this world no other you tried. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:54:38 -0800 Harry Veltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which version and GUI will work best on the internet with my AT Pentium II 350MHz x86-based PC? Some web sites require Flash Player 8 or higher, If flash is important to you then I'd suggest you run windows firefox

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If flash is important to you then I'd suggest you run windows firefox under wine. Native Adobe Flash support is apparently working again in isn't better to run windows ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Oldie @ 1 GHz? You must be joking. I'd bite my hand off for such hardware. :-) No need. Get a job at a computer service store, like my fiancee. You will get orphans donated in the 2-3Ghz range just as long as my data is transfered to the new computer. ;) looks like such services on your area

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 14:22 +, RW wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:54:38 -0800 Harry Veltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which version and GUI will work best on the internet with my AT Pentium II 350MHz x86-based PC? Some web sites require Flash Player 8 or higher, If flash is

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 15:42 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: If flash is important to you then I'd suggest you run windows firefox under wine. Native Adobe Flash support is apparently working again in isn't better to run windows ? That'd be debatable, wouldn't it?