486s are not dead! I run a 486 66 with 16 megs of ram on Debian Linux as my
firewall/ppp router and it works just fine. I was running FreeBSD on it for
a while and found the performance to be nothing short of amazing; they have
done some fantastic things with cutting memory usage to the bone. I would
recommend FreeBSD for marginal machines if someone wants to learn unix. You
can run linux binaries on BSD, but it requires some expertise and a kernel
recompile. I had to switch back to linux because I was unable to make it
work with a dialup type connection and ip masquerading (it likes to have
static ips). If anyone has made BSD work with a dynamic ip dialup situation
as a gateway I would love to hear how you did it. I am loathe to try it
again because, as others have pointed out, doing an install on a 486 is an
all-day affair.
Tom Trent
ps to Jamie: Let's try to put FreeBSD on that old 386!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Rodney Mishima
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 9:53 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: RH 6.2 downloading from your site
>
>
> Jamie,
>
> I'm a lot older than you and "not getting any younger". I would
> rather work w. a
> faster box for Linux. I respectfully decline your 386 offer. If I
> were stuck w. a
> 486, I would just run Windows (maybe Win 95) and use it for e-mail.
>
> If you can do more w. it, you win. Whether you would be willing
> to give RH6.2 a
> try is another matter. (I suspect NOT).
>
> Rodney
>
> "Linux Rocks!" wrote:
>
> > Rodney has hard feeling about 486's ... i guess one wasted a
> bunch of his
> > time :(
> > So... ok rodney you wanna whine about 486's? Ill let
> you put linux
> > on my 386 laptop (via paralell cdrom!) and after its installed and
> > working, ill give you a 486, and you can tell me how you feel
> about 486's!
> >
> > Jamie
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Ralph Zeller wrote:
> >
> > > Be nice to us, Rodney!
> > >
> > > At 09:32 AM 4/4/00 -0700, Rodney Mishima
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >Do you think any 486ers want to try this?
> > > >
> > > >Rodney
> > >
>
