light OS

[Brian Kelsay]

Brian Densmore wrote:

>Help, my firewall box is burning out and I need to
>replace the MB, but I also need to keep it up until
>I have a functioning replacement. Well, I found this
>old 200MHz Pentium Pro laying around, but can only get 
>16MB to be recognized by it. So I need a light OS to 
>use to install on it, and am looking for suggestions. 
>My Mandrake 9 and RH 8 won't cut it, and I don't have
>a gentoo burnt for Pentiums.
>
>  
>
I use ipcop on mine.  It's basically a stripped down Red Hat 7.3 with 
the right stuff added to do IPtables.  I don't need a gui on it as it 
runs a small webserver for configuration from w/in the network.  The web 
server is not visible to the internet unless I make it so.  (insecure)   
ipcop.org

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