Re: Linux Firewall

On Sun, 28 May 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.security, in article
<q1oh725nbjgr99m1h3rd01l9fi2m4e8lus@xxxxxxx>, Grant wrote:
ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) wrote:

... Mine is what's left of a 386SX lap-doggy

How much memory? A friend was given a very old 386 Datastar laptop
(google turns up nothing for him) with 2MB memory and doesn't know
if any linux will run on it. Is 2MB RAM enough for 2.0.40 kernel?

'top' says it's using most of the 8 Megs it has on board, and about a Meg
of swap. 2.0 Megs - no, I don't know anything that would tolerate that.
The 'Linux FAQ' that gets posted to c.o.l.m (decidedly outdated) mentions
operating in 2 Megs at line 349, and then requires 4 Megs on line 1206 or
so. I dunno, maybe if you were running SLS 1.05 (a distribution that
predates Slack). You can find that, and Slackware 1.1.2 if you'd like,
at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/historic-linux/distributions/

Old guy
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