On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:16:03PM +0000, didier gaumet wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:00:22 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > I want a distribution with security support since if I didn't want that > > I could just stick with Woody. > > > > DamnSmallLinux needs to boot from a CD. > > there are bootfloppies for DSL
Yes, I see that now, thanks. The other issue with DSL is that it will never use 2.4 kernel. I can't find any info on the site about a security updates process. The focus seems to be "cram as much in a small CD as possible" as opposed to make as secure a system as possible. This is, after all, a tool box. > > > > > FreeBSD will run, does anyone have experience with it? > > I have a Pentium I 133MHz 32MB RAM Laptop. > I did not try to install FreeBSD on it but NetBSD: it was much faster than > Debian Sarge (needs only 8MB if a "tiny" kernel is used). Eventually I > installed Debian Potato in order to keep an acceptable speed (NetBSD did > not properly recognize an old external PCMCIA 2x CD-ROM reader, nor the > sound card). If your hardware is recognized, NetBSD (stable = 3.1) is > probably the less resource consuming OS I've tried so far. > Do you know how security updates happen for the BSDs? I'm trying to track that down now. Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]