Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
* Hans du Plooy
[May 04. 2004 23:36]: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 20:25, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
NetBSD is definately the way to go here.
Would FreeBSD work as well, or is NetBSD actually faster/lighter? I thought of a minimal gentoo too - I have enough extra machines that can do distcc to make that not quite as painful and slow as it might otherwise be.
FreeBSD would still be a lot faster, but NetBSD is lighter. And I wouldn't pay too much attention to those people suggesting Gentoo, in the same league because it's still glibc vs. libc.so.5
You can have a complete server installation in 30-40 MB with NetBSD.
The BSD's are really excellent for bring such old hardware back to life.
Isn't OpenBSD the most secure? Perhaps it would be best for a firwall.