Oldest computer with FreeBSD?

[nobody]

What is the oldest computer where you have installed FreeBSD with graphical desktop like Mate, Xfce, Kde, ... etc?

 

[fmc000]

Acer Aspire, 2010, Cinnamon.

 

[Maxnix]

If x11-wm/cwm counts, a Compaq Presario 2100, year 2003 (IIRC). Got used around 2012, installed FreeBSD 9/10.

 

[Andrey Lanin]

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Other Post in thread 'CDE Users Unite!'

Sep 14, 2022

CDE on EeePC 901 (bought in 2008). Compiled and installed

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[Crivens]

Andrey Lanin you, Sir, are a glutton for punishment if you compiled that on little thing.

 

[Andrey Lanin]

Andrey Lanin you, Sir, are a glutton for punishment if you compiled that on little thing.

This was a bet with my son

 

[vmisev]

Oldest that I still have: AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE (unlocked to 6 cores) with SATA2/USB2 only and Radeon HD 6770, 'rust' HDDs only (KDE, of course)

I had EeePC, just commented on YT day or two ago:
"I had Asus EeePC (Atom/1G RAM - unfortunately it was stolen from me by ACABs). I run Lubuntu/LXDE on EeePC, and I used to ctrl+alt+F[n] to switch to tty, start another X11 on :1 and then from TWM/xterm ssh to my FreeBSD desktop and start Lumina DE on FreeBSD which worked great even on Linux X11, so I had nice graphics terminal to the FreeBSD which I could use laying in the bed; how I used that EeePC was actually "single boot, multiple OSes" use w/o virtualization and actual "OS hopping" with just a single keystroke" /q

 

[tuaris]

Dell PowerEdge 2300 and Compaq ProLiant 5500

The Compaq ran FreeBSD 4.11 (or 4.12). I'm sure by now that machine has been retired, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's still powered on.
The Dell PowerEdge 2300 had version 10.x until the hardware died a few years ago.

As for actively functioning systems, there is a slightly modified maxed out Dell PowerEdge 1850 (I added NVMe's) that's key component to everything. Recently upgraded it to 13.5-RELEASE-p3. It's a 64-bit system, so it's still got lots of life left in it.

Edit: OOPS I reread the post body. So none of these count.

 

[RetroComputingCollector]

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Other Post in thread 'CDE Users Unite!'

Sep 14, 2022

CDE on EeePC 901 (bought in 2008). Compiled and installed

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I have one of those pieces of junk. It struggles to run WinXP. How long did it take to compile?

 

[Crivens]

I have one of those pieces of junk. It struggles to run WinXP. How long did it take to compile?

Mine runs haiku and is able to compile updates from source. Surprisingly fast at it, also. But 3D blows on that thing. So I play Diablo1...

 

[RetroComputingCollector]

Mine runs haiku and is able to compile updates from source. Surprisingly fast at it, also. But 3D blows on that thing. So I play Diablo1...

What about DooM? I have contemplated turning mine into a mini MS-DOS 7.1 machine!

 

[Andrey Lanin]

I have one of those pieces of junk. It struggles to run WinXP. How long did it take to compile?

I don't remember, it was 3 years ago, when I get home, I'll look at the creation time of the object files (if I haven't deleted them)

 

[astyle]

Back in 2006, I installed FreeBSD 6.0 (with XFCE) on a computer that was originally sold in '98 or '99, with Windows 98. I think it was a Gateway... Turned it into an email server, complete with sendmail.

 

[RetroComputingCollector]

Back in 2006, I installed FreeBSD 6.0 (with XFCE) on a computer that was originally sold in '98 or '99, with Windows 98. I think it was a Gateway... Turned it into an email server, complete with sendmail.

I have some old late 90s powermacs that would probably make great mailservers.

 

[Andrey Lanin]

I have one of those pieces of junk. It struggles to run WinXP. How long did it take to compile?

Unfortunately, after installation, I deleted the entire directory in which the CDE was built, so I can't say how long the compilation took.

 

[Crivens]

There is a huge mountain of diamond and each thousand years a small bird comes around to sharpen it's beak on the mountain...

In other words - it took bloody ages.

 

[astyle]

Come on, there are perfectly sharp rocks available that are only a few minutes old.

 

[blackbird9]

Probably the earliest was a thinkpad X31, and after that an X41. I used to run frenzy ( http://frenzy.org.ua ) which was/is a freebsd livecd on the X41 by booting from usb drive and load the entire o/s into ram using the toram option... to avoid using the slow little 1.8" HDD. Then later ran it for a while with the HDD replaced with one of the old type full size sdram cards, you used to be able to get adapters that allowed those to be plugged in to the mini ide port or whatever was in the X41, I can't remember what the hardware was now. it worked for a while but of course the wear levelling in the sdram was pants. So probably an X31 was the earliest box I actually ran freebsd on, that I can remember anyway. I ran windowmaker and fvwm on it, like I do now.