>>>>> "James" == James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
James> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 13:16, Kasim, Yosep wrote:
>> Hi there
>>
>> I have a very old pc that I want to serve into linux gateway. Is
>> there any good distro for this old machine.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance
James> I have a P166 (non-MMX variety) with 160MB RAM running as a
James> firewall, Samba server, DNS server, DHCP server...bit of
James> everything really.
Ha. I'm typing this on a laptop P166 with 80MB memory, with X, and
xemacs. It's slow (I can't run internet banking, although firefox
runs)
Debian Unstable with a self-compiled 2.6 kernel.
My firewall is a 486DX50 with 32M memory, but some of that is stolen
by the BIOS. Also running a hand-tuned debian unstable, with a
self-compiled 2.6 kernel, and the TIS firewall toolkit.
(I compile kernels for the small boxen to get rid of modules I don't
need --- in fact I don't compile modular kernels for these things, as
then there's a whole heap of userspace I can do without, and neither
has more than 1G disc)
On salamander (the 486 firewall; no GUI here):
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 21676 19296 2380 0 956 8504
-/+ buffers/cache: 9836 11840
Swap: 32592 6456 26136
30 BogoMIPS.
On piggle (the laptop):
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 78392 75920 2472 0 848 34440
-/+ buffers/cache: 40632 37760
Swap: 64504 16544 47960
323 BogoMIPS.
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