squid will NOT perform well in such a slow machine. >Hardware: Pentium II 266 MHz, 96MB RAM
if you use content filtering squid will heavier then and it seems you want to increase the load with firewalling too. trust me your system will crash within a week. distro is not a prefference but hardware should be for the do. regards On 6/28/05, Mithun Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hardware: Pentium II 266 MHz, 96MB RAM > > I need to make this a gateway - routing, firewall and potentially squid > too. > > I am trying to figure out which would be the best distro/OS to use. > Currently I am considering Debian, Slackware and FreeBSD/OpenBSD > > Most important for me is that everything needs to work and secondly it > shouldnt be too much of a pain to maintain. > > I would request feedback in technical merits rather than declaration of > holy war :). > > Personally I know zipslack 10 runs fine and Fedora Core 1 brought it > down to a crawl. Obviously there will be no X Windows or any desktop > productivity applications running on it. Squid ofcourse might be a > problem. > > > Mithun > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
