I would recommend FreeBSD 5.4.. A.) Secure by default . B.) Sturdy/Stable .. i am running three boxes in production environment facing the internet directly and they work perfectly fine ..
and most importantly .. the kind of machines i know you like to build .. this is extremly light .. no unnecessary applications on it ;-) Cheers, Andy 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]/
