On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:37:01PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus, with two drives: 840 MB > and 1280 MB IDE. Currently running Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. > > Box has two uses: > > under normal cirumstance, as a thin client to my > athlon box elsewhere in the house. > > As a toolbox incase anything goes wrong with my new athlon, I > still can dial out to the net for help and downloads. > > Debian Etch will need more than 32 MB ram so am starting the planning. > > I've compared Open-, Net-, and Free-BSD (via google search and reading > the three web-sites) and like the security-by-default nature of Open- > and its reputation for solid documentation. I'm used to the command > line (hate GUI) and vi. > > Is there any reason that OpenBSD wouldn't be my best choice for this > box?
Best? Well, it's what I would use. I've personally run with as little as 48MB on i386 arch and it was fine at console or ssh. Given the uses you want, you're probably going to say "yes" to sshd during install. When you reboot after install it'll generate keys. Plan to go have supper around then. ;) Any further rebooting won't have that penalty. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/darrin/ |
