| Sean Finney on Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:40:08 +0200 |
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:18:26PM -0400, Fred K Ollinger wrote: > > The freedos experiment is working better for me simply because I am more > > familiar with it than with Unix and therefore Linux. I know that is a > > function of time but I have to get the damned thing running first to get > > used to using it. > > Have you thought of net or openbsd? They are quite small. i'm surprised we haven't already heard from the list's official netBSD advocate ;), but as a user of it myself it might fit the bill, if the latest linux kernel + distro is too bloated (though I think a minimal debian install should work if you get your hands on a 3.0 install disk and don't let tasksel or dselect run amock on you). back in my freshman year in college i had this POS P75 laptop with some ridiculously small amount of ram, and I was able to get a non-x base install of debian running without too much hassle (though i had to do it from floppy because i didn't have a network card). as for netbsd, currently i'm running it on a pentium 95 with 24 mb ram, and it's working quite happily as a firewall, router, dhcp server, dns server, ssh server, and even at some points a web server. granted I don't run X on it, or compile software all that often, but it does wonders for my needs. I've been on the current-users email list for a while, and it seems there are quite a good number of people who are still running pre-pentium x86 boxes too. anyway, just thought I'd throw in my $0.02, good luck :) --sean Attachment:
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