On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:16:24PM -0500, Travers Buda wrote: > * Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-21 22:37:01]: > > > I've got a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus, with two drives: 840 MB > > and 1280 MB IDE. Currently running Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. > > > *snip* > > > > Is there any reason that OpenBSD wouldn't be my best choice for this > > box? > > I've run OpenBSD on a 486DX2 with 20 megs of ram. When you're > talking about the 486es, you're going to want a FPU with openbsd. > It does not look like there is any emulation (however, I remember > seeing something in the GENERIC config a year or so back...) or > else it won't work. The system was fine, and quite responsive for > just ssh, tip, etc. OpenBSD is a fine choice, the biggest bottleneck > you're probably going to see is virtual memory-related stuff like > the encrypted swap, which you can turn off via the vm.swapencrypt.enable > sysctl. You're probably not going to be swapping too darn much > unless you decide to use X, then it's going to be a bit over the > line, however, this does not mean it's not going to work. =)
486DX4-100 has FPU. All I need is a basic X window manager (for moving windows around), an xterm, and ssh that port forwards X11. Right now, I have no problem sshing to my athlon in the basement and running Konqueror for web browsing when I need java and https. The only other memory and compute intensive thing I do is run debian's aptitude package manager. You mean OpenBSD has encrypted swap out-of-the-box? That's fantastic. It took a while to set up on my debian etch box. Thanks, Doug.
