[ale] looking for a very lightweight distro

Michael B. Trausch mike at trausch.us
Wed Jul 14 02:38:33 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 01:25 -0400, jrtroberts wrote:
> I am looking for a very lightweight distro, something to run on a P2
> era computer maybe a bit earlier, It only needs to function as a
> router.  So I need to use IP Tables to route between maybe two - five
> networks, My sisters lan/internet connection in her APT and my
> father's backup server(on a separate VLAN) in the house proper.  I am
> hoping that my father has an old box that has room for 2 nic cards.
> That seems to be the cheapest route at the moment. 

Try Puppy or DSL:

http://puppylinux.org/
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

	--- Mike



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