Try gentoo Hans du Plooy said:
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 20:14, S.R.Glasoe wrote:
Does it have a "Turbo" switch and is it "on"? Have a jumper on the board for that - the box that it's in is a bit newer.
I'd say you need more RAM if it'll take it. I tried sticking two more 8mb simms (72 pin) in it, but it came up with kernel panick. I have a feeling it takes non-edo ram or something like that. I'm not too sure, my memory of all those different types of ram are a bit hazy...
In theory that machine should work for a firewall. I'd suggest one of the extremely light weight Linux distributions or the firewall-on-a-floppy distributions that still support 486s. I'll definitely look into this. Just got a bunch on a recent magazine cover.
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.
Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
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