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Date:      Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:42:22 +0200
From:      albi <albi@scii.nl>
To:        "hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" <hackmiester@hackmiester.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM
Message-ID:  <20060827234222.3ff10c45.albi@scii.nl>
In-Reply-To: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com>
References:  <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com>

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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:35:51 -0500
"hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" <hackmiester@hackmiester.com> wrote:

> Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz  
> processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type
> of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's
> linux, freebsd, or something else, but I need something that will run
> with enough speed to run an sshd and not much else. It will just be
> to prove that old hardware can still be used. Any suggestions?

it's a 386 ?  try minix first, then FreeBSD 3.x :]

http://www.minix3.org/download/index.html

-- 
grtjs,
albi



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