Third Choice of Linux Distro?

[Kendrick-LUG]

Brian Kelsay wrote:

>I would assume this is due to the limitation/requirements of the RedHat 7.3 installer, since IPCop 
is RH 7.3 underneath.  Remember a while back, Leo Mauler had trouble installing RH on a low memory 
machine.  I have IPCop running on a P-166 w/ 64MB and a 1-2GB HDD.  I think only 24MB is used.  
This is due to additional ramdisks created when Ram is available.  Once install is complete the CD 
can be removed and the floppy drive is used for backup of user config.  Admin is done through a 
browser on another PC on the local net.  
>http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/IPCopQuickStart
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actualy you didnt understand what i was saying.   ipcop, i just didnt 
like how it worked.  some of the features wouldent work as expected 
etc.  I ran it as my firewall for about 3 months and couldent stand it.  
it will install on a machine w 24mb ram thats what mine had.   astro how 
ever was the one i mentioned as having need of 64mb ram

heres for the current version

Hardware Requirements

*·* 	400 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM
*·* 	8 GB IDE or SCSI HDD
*·* 	Bootable CD-ROM Drive
*·* 	PCI Ethernet Networkcards (up to 20)

Throughput with a 1266 MHz CPU
*·* 	730 MBit/s Packet Filter
*·* 	115 MBit/s IPSec VPN
*·* 	6,000 email/hour (10KB e-mails) with Virus Protection