steve szmidt wrote:
>On Friday 01 September 2006 13:35, Richard Smoot wrote:
>
>
>>My wife prefers Linux, but needs to reactivate her Win98 so she can
>>go to sites using Flash 9. It appears Flash 9 for Linux won't be ready
>>until early 2007.
>>Zonealarm has stopped supporting Win 98. What was the other
>>firewall you were recommending? She hasn't used her Win 98 for
>>over a year. I havn't checked AVG yet if it is still good for Win 98.
>>This Flash 9 issue could really hurt adoption of desktop Linux's.
>>She is finding a lot of sites she goes to require it.
>>
>>
>
>If you have any old machine you can turn that into a great firewall for all
>your computers. You configure it to be a cashing DNS too and browsing might
>be a bit faster, as it stores addresses.
>
>With OpenBSD you get a state of the art f/w and a secure time server. With
>48MB RAM, 500MB disk and 2 NICs you are running.
>
>There are even floppy versions of Linux that contains a f/w. A small CPU is
>good because you have less fan noise and power consumption. 486 and up is
>plenty.
>
>
>
Off the shelf router/firewall should work fine. I have worked with the
Coyote Linux floppy distro on a 486 with minimal ram (16 meg), no fan &
2 NICs (and some duct tape).
http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/articles/howto/Ghetto_Router_1.html
If you need something on the windows 98 box (software FW), Zone Alarm
was best. I have also used Black Ice Defender (though might have the
same issue with Windows 98)
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