Subject: Re: I will go on NetBSD 1.5
To: Karim Forsthofer <kforstho@email2me.net>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/29/2005 14:59:46
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:24:23PM +0800, Karim Forsthofer wrote:
> Hello netbsd-users
> 
> Thanks for the replies. There seems to be a lot interest on this one. I
> will give version 1.5 a try, it was released in 2000. After reading your
> posts and also release announcement from 1.2 up to 1.6 I decided for
> version 1.5. This is a good compromise between resource usage and recency
> I guess.  I`m confident that the OS will perform well on this small
> machine and that RAM will be enough for a generic kernel. After some
> configurations and system checks and can also build a custom kernel.
> There is no soundcard, no mouse or NIC on this notebook so the kernel
> will be damm small. I also found an older sdcc version which fits to this
> release.  Any suggestions for the swap partition size? 

Be aware that there will be no security- or other updates for the 1.5
branch anymore.  But since your machine doesn't have a network interface,
security updates probably are no concern. :-)  

GH