I am moving house soon and while clearing out my garage I found an old PC from around 1996 that I had deliberately saved for some purpose that I have long since forgotten. The PC boots into Damn Small Linux (2.4 kernel) and is surprisingly spritely running X-Windows. In fact I was stunned how quick it was. I am thinking about experimenting with this old PC after my house move and I was wondering if there is a published list of minimum system requirements for each version of FreeBSD? I do vaguely remember installing FreeBSD on it long ago but I fancied recreating the look of my first ever purchased UNIX licence (UnixWare 1.0 with Motif) by using FreeBSD and CDE.
I realise a lot of the old graphics card support has recently been dumped from FreeBSD, but I still fancy having a go creating either a 12.x or 11.x custom kernel installation in VESA mode.
I read somewhere recently that is was possible to compile i586 FreeBSD 8.x for a target with less than 32MB of RAM. Does anyone know if this is still possible on 12.x?
I realise a lot of the old graphics card support has recently been dumped from FreeBSD, but I still fancy having a go creating either a 12.x or 11.x custom kernel installation in VESA mode.
I read somewhere recently that is was possible to compile i586 FreeBSD 8.x for a target with less than 32MB of RAM. Does anyone know if this is still possible on 12.x?