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.

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