[plug] need to upgrade? -was Re: [plug] kmail and the gigasecond bug

[garry]

Brett,

I have a Cyrix p233 with 32 Mb RAM as a e-smith gateway.

It was a Smoothwall gateway with 16Mb RAM.

Only reason I upgraded it was to have a look at e-smith, and that 32Mb was 
recomended. Cost me $20 for 2 x 8Mb simms at the computer swap meet on 
Cambridge St one Sunday.

For interest, I'm thinking of going back to Smoothwall as e-smith doesn't 
seem to have built in traffic reporting, and I don't need the other 
capabilities of e-smith.

I know that a gateway come firewall is not a huge demand on computer power, 
but it does show that recent distributions do run on a Cyrix, and with modest 
ram.

If you have 64 Mb ram, use Opera instead of Netscape and a modest GUI, you'll 
be fine on RH7.1

Hope you can understand that bitching about bugs, security issues and 
newer-bigger-slower distributions on a false premise is getting a little 
tiring to listen to.

Garry.

As per Redhat running on 16 Mb RAM I don't use Redhat so if
> > you want it's hardware requirements I suggest looking at their website.
> > The post I replied to said you had 64 MB so I'm not sure why you're even
> > talking about 16 MB.
>
> As I said above, we have a 486 with 16MB RAM. As I said in a subsequent
> posting, the 486 is the only PC that we could spare to trial a new(er)
> distribution. Simple.
>
> Bret Busby
> ..........