I have recently been encouraging my less Linux-centric colleagues to use LEAF as a fire-wall for their personal dial-up/cable/ADSL Internet connections, having done the same with the company ISDN and ADSL connections.
Yesterday the trainee expressed interest, explained that he had cable access and asked about the hardware requirements. I explained that almost anything he could lay his hands on would be sufficient and he then asked "but wouldn't that (a 386) perform *too* slowly?". I reassured him that that would be OK and sent him off after an introductory talk about LEAF with both an Eigerstien and a Dachstein floppy. Once at home I decided to put my "money where my mouth was" and *downgraded* my 486 DX2-80 with a 386 SX-33! I had to (of course) replace the kernel on my ISDN Eigerstien with a non-FPU example, but it all works a treat! What I do notice is that during start-up the unpacking of the Linux Kernel and initial ram disk images take an *age*! I do love LEAF! Greetings Mark _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
