On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 09:51 -0500, Rob Bochan wrote: > 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. Can you show us what it's dmesg looks like? (As an attachment, so that the lines won't wrap, or a URL?) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "this is how main street of town looked back in 1985 when I was of age of those girls" http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/page11.html
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