Re: [PLUG] mini Linux

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:00:36AM -0800, rekaye1005@earthlink.net wrote:
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> I am looking for suggestions...
>  
> I have a old IBM PC, 64Mb ram.
> Being frugal, and trying to squeeze the last bit of functionality out of
> everything,
> does anyone have a suggestion for a (mini?) version of Linux that would
> function with this spec?
>  
> I would set it up as an ISP dialup device, with a basic firewall using
> iptables.
>  
> Would it be asking too much to have a tiny little gui?

I have an old 486 running debian testing.  Some stats, to suggest you
should be just fine:

    jeff@gw:~$ uptime
     13:31:59 up 482 days, 13:03,  2 users,  load average: 0.22, 0.07, 0.02
    jeff@gw:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
	    total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
    Mem:  14065664 13692928   372736  4997120  2064384  7700480
    Swap: 134660096  1978368 132681728
    MemTotal:     13736 kB
    MemFree:        364 kB
    MemShared:     4880 kB
    Buffers:       2016 kB
    Cached:        7520 kB
    SwapTotal:   131504 kB
    SwapFree:    129572 kB
    jeff@gw:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
    processor       : 0
    vendor_id       : unknown
    cpu family      : 4
    model           : 0
    model name      : unknown
    stepping        : unknown
    fdiv_bug        : no
    hlt_bug         : no
    sep_bug         : no
    f00f_bug        : no
    coma_bug        : no
    fpu             : yes
    fpu_exception   : yes
    cpuid level     : -1
    wp              : yes
    flags           :
    bogomips        : 33.07

    jeff@gw:~$ df -h
    Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/hda1             458M  269M  166M  62% /
    jeff@gw:~$

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 Jeff

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