On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:25 am, you wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:41:05 -0500
>
> ethan zimmerman <lists@ethanzimmerman.com> wrote:
> > Okay I wish to breathe new life into old hardware by turning an old pc
> > into an email-checking-web-browsing-solitaire-playing machine.
> >
> > First the bad news (the hardware)...
> > - 486DX 50Mhz
> > - the bios can't see partitions bigger than 512MB
> > - and it's running windows 95 (hehe)
Hehe, I used to have a 486-33.
It was my dialup gateway, firewall, mail and web server plus it could run X in
a hair over slow motion, on 8 MB RAM. The 16M upgrade did wonders for X.
(Though I seldom used X.)
We are going back to very early days circa RH 2.0.
As others have pointed out RAM is everything.
ICE is another lightweight window manager.
Though I prefer to convert 486's to firewalls. Perfect size!
-- Steve__________________________________________________
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