re: risk assessment for old toolbox

[Mike McClain <mike.mcclain@nowhere.net>]

On 13 Jun 2007 Douglas Allan Tutty asked:
>So the question is: how much risk does a woody box take on dialup
>internet for simple mail and browsing?

I installed Woody in Feb. 2001 and ran without a firewall or update
'til this past Dec. when I saw something to make me think I'd been
hacked. It took me a few months and a lot of study to prove I hadn't.
I'm on dialup and pop3 and browsing is my only exposure.

>What have other people here done with old hardware that they still 
>want to use?

I've a Pentium MMX box with 256MB memory and an old Trident tvga8900b 
video board that Xorg has dropped.
I'm running Etch using the Woody xserver-svga_3.3.6 and support libs. 
Had to do the same thing in Sarge and Slackware 11.0.

HTH, 
Mike