Very Computer

I don't expect any micracles and have a pretty souped up PIII that I
use for most of my work, but I want to add the 486 to my home network
and windows98 is too slow for that old machine.  Really the main use
of the 486 will be to use instant messenger and send and recieve
email, nothing too fancy, but if I can run star office and the gcc C
compiler on there for my unix programming it would be nice.

As far as hardware, I have a D-Link 804 DSL Router/Switch already.

Quote:> Hi all,
> I am not very familiar with the different flavors that are out there,
> but I need to know which flavor is compact and fast enough to run on
> my old 486 dx2/66 with a little bitty 16 megs of ram and 540 meg HD.

I took it out of service when the SCSI drive or controller failed.
I've since put in an old IDE drive. I'm about to add another
network card, install RH 7.x and use it as a firewall machine.

Quote:> I don't expect any micracles and have a pretty souped up PIII that I
> use for most of my work, but I want to add the 486 to my home network
> and windows98 is too slow for that old machine.  Really the main use
> of the 486 will be to use instant messenger and send and recieve
> email, nothing too fancy, but if I can run star office and the gcc C
> compiler on there for my unix programming it would be nice.

> As far as hardware, I have a D-Link 804 DSL Router/Switch already.

Or maybe a zipslack, from slackware (34Mb) ?
http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/zipslack/

HTH
Sebas