Re: Linux Firewall

On Sat, 27 May 2006 16:04:29 -0500, ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) wrote:

... Mine is what's left of a 386SX lap-doggy, without case,
keyboard or display. The last time it had a full-fledged distribution
installed was Slack 3.something - maybe 3.6 or 3.9. It's been updated
piece-meal since then, and is now running a 2.0.40 kernel, and very
little else.

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?

Thanks,
Grant.
--
.... The computer scientist, who had listened to all of this said,
"Yes, but where do you think the chaos came from?"
.

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