30 Nov
2005
30 Nov
'05
3:14 a.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Obviously an older distro will work fine (I still have
my Slackware 1.2
around here somewhere). My point about being "useful" is that Pentium
133s are almost literally free (I see them curbside every month) and for
"free" you can usually get all the way up to a 400MHz PII or 700 MHz
PIII and those are much more useful.
I've got a PII-233 laptop that runs Slackware 10.2 quite happily. I
tend to use P133 as the lowest spec for running NAT, SAMBA and
Spamassassin on (with as much memory as they will take - Spamassassin is
written in Perl and is a memory guzzler) for people to share out their
broadband and keep a few common files on.
Gordon