Re: Debian on an old PC
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 08:54 am, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
> I need some advice. Is debian fit for a Pentium 100MHz PC with 16MB RAM
> and approx 4Gb harddisk? Are there anyone who has experience with such a
> slow machine running debian (or any other linux dist)?
I have an old Tandy 486-SX/16 meg, with a 540 meg hard drive, that I use as
the family mail server/spam filter. I gave it 100 megs for swap and it still
have 230 megs free! It's a pretty lean install that runs Debian Stable with a
custom 2.2.x kernel that has minimal hardware support built in. It runs
postfix, spamassassin, and fetchmail. Mail is accessed via the popa3d
program. There's no outside access to the machine. It's by no means a
speed-demon, but it works well enough for my purposes.
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...Rob
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