*nix on "classic" systems

Ensor classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk
Fri Apr 13 20:32:58 CDT 2007


Hi,

  > A P90 will do. I have Debian running on a 486sx25 with 32 MB of
  >RAM. It's quite luxurious for a low-end 486, but it's still pretty
  >slow. :)

Yeah, when I last tinkered with Linux in 1996 I ran it on a 486DX-50. It ran 
well enough, but then I wasn't running X (I could never get it to drive the 
VGA card or monitor properly).

  > My firewall machine is a P133.

As it turns out, the Vectra is actually a P-120. I have another old (home 
built) P-90, which I'm thinking about setting up as a firewall, maybe....


  > You almost certainly won't want to run a GUI on such a machine....

Noooo...!

A shell prompt will be more than sufficient for my purposes at the moment; 
though being able to log in remotely from my M$ box would be immensely 
useful.


  TTFN - Pete.



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