[wellylug] advice on what to install!

[Jethro Carr]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 23:54, Paul Daniel wrote:
> I have been donated an ex server.  It is  a Unisys 486 with  16MB RAM,  
> SCSI card with 350MB SCSI hdd  dual NICs
> No CD drive and win 95 installed currently.   Got to be something better 
> for this one for my home  jetstart network.   It is too big to be a 
> paper weight or just a firewall!


The real problem is the small hard disk. Get a larger hard disk, and you
could use it as a webserver, firewall, mp3 server, etc.

Distro. You want a fast distro, with doesn't take up much room, and is
compatible with the 486 processer. You want something you can customise
a lot, to remove unneeded clutter.

How about LFS? That way, you can remove all the stuff you don't want,
and add a light gui with blackbox (maybe). The bonus is smaller, faster,
and 486 compatible.


-- 
-- Jethro

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