Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:36:11 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "David Kelly" <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Hunter Fuller hackmiester <hackmiester@hackmiester.com> Subject: Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608271936l72809c00x567455b94d2f3ea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47E43A34-8468-44D9-A57F-FBBCF6C81D8D@HiWAAY.net> References: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com> <47E43A34-8468-44D9-A57F-FBBCF6C81D8D@HiWAAY.net>
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On 8/27/06, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:35 PM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: > > > Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz > > processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type > > of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's > > linux, freebsd, or something else, but I need something that will > > run with enough speed to run an sshd and not much else. It will > > just be to prove that old hardware can still be used. Any suggestions? > > Haven't booted it in a long time but have FreeBSD 2.1.0 or 2.1.5 on a > 16 MHz 386sx16 with 4 MB of RAM. > > Has an 8 bit NE2000 NIC which required the NFS window be reduced to > 1k or so. I used this as a "portable FreeBSD netinstall box" back in > the bad old days before I could afford a CD-R, or even have CD-ROM on > many machines. > You could try FreeBSD 2.2.9! It was released April 1st 2006. "Releases which are published from a -STABLE branch will be supported by the Security Officer for a minimum of 12 months after the release." http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#adv So technically it's a current and fully supported release of FreeBSD!!! hahahaha! :-0 -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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