Re: Life at 4 bogomips

[Havoc Pennington <rhp@zirx.pair.com>]

On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> 
> Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
> firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
> bloat has done!  I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
> on it. Now it is running Debian and MAN is it S-L-O-W.
> 

I would suggest one of the several super-minimal distributions out there,
like the Linux Router Project - those really make more sense for something
like this.

Havoc