bumbler
November 20th, 2004, 14:57
My little sister gave me her old Gateway Solo 2500. It had (shudder) XP on it. I first tried SuSE 8.2, because it had lots of laptop friendly stuff. Not a good result, because it refused to do sound. Also, it was slower than XP.
I switched to FreeBSD 4.9, largely because I have a full set of packages on CD, and because I really liked KDE 3.1.4. I went through the optimizations, then built a custom kernel. Got sound! Also found a very nice console font at 80x30. And of course it's pretty quick. This thing has a PII 266 with 160MB RAM. The NeoMagic graphics is a puny 2MB VRAM, but works okay.
Since I don't plan to connect to the Internet, I won't bother updating or upgrading. Everything works just fine. The more I play with other OSes, the more I appreciate FreeBSD.
Bumbler
I switched to FreeBSD 4.9, largely because I have a full set of packages on CD, and because I really liked KDE 3.1.4. I went through the optimizations, then built a custom kernel. Got sound! Also found a very nice console font at 80x30. And of course it's pretty quick. This thing has a PII 266 with 160MB RAM. The NeoMagic graphics is a puny 2MB VRAM, but works okay.
Since I don't plan to connect to the Internet, I won't bother updating or upgrading. Everything works just fine. The more I play with other OSes, the more I appreciate FreeBSD.
Bumbler