[cumbria_lug] Use for an old 486 laptop?

[Ian Linwood]

Hello Michael,

Monday, December 29, 2003, 9:43:46 PM, you wrote:

MS> What do you reckon? The thing runs Debian 2.1 with reasonable speed
MS> (even X) and Windows 3.1 doesn't struggle too much either. The only
MS> idea I've come up with so far is stripping it to bits and trying to
MS> cram the system into a NES case (or similar) -- fun, but useless.

Internal router (needs 2 PCMCIA, or PCMCIA + onboard NIC)
If meets above - firewall...

DNS
DHCPD
LDAP
Mail gateway

Oh, come on.. do I need to go on?

Sack debian - get a newer Slackware on it. I'll post a CD to you if
you wish.

Or you could try OpenBSD, or even...ta-da-da...Solaris x86  ;-)

-- 
Best regards,
 Ian