On Thursday 05 September 2002 9:12 am, you wrote:
I have an old 486 box collecting dust, and I thought I might turn it into a webserver. I'd like it to be secure and have modern(ish) facilities like mod_perl and php. Is there a version of SuSE which is still currently supported (for Apache security updates) which will run on such an old box?
You could actually try your luck with 8.0 - I had an old first-gen Pentium with only 32M of RAM (a lot less than the official minimum for install) and no CD drive.
Actually my box is a 486DX-133 with 32MB. No hard disk at the moment but I might be able scrounge an old one from somewhere. Perhaps with enough swap and a customised set of minimal packages, 8.0 will do the job. Gotta be worth a try. :o) -- The past: Smart users in front of dumb terminals