Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 May 1999 13:38:12 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Linux is good! |
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Hi Sylvia.
> I mean a feature-rich, stable, quite light, not-too-complicated > OS (hell, my Internet gateway (OK, small network) runs on a > DX2/80!) with lots of great applications, not to mention the > community itself.
On a network I recently set up for an impoverished school, there are the following Linux systems:
1. 386dx/40 with 2x130M hard drive and 16M of RAM which is acting as a firewall blocking access to the school's administration computers from the computers the school's pupils use.
2. 486sx/33 with 4.3G hard drive and 80M of RAM which is acting as the gateway to the outside world, and also as a bridging firewall linking the school's inter-office network to the computing dept network. This machine is also running squid as a cacheing web proxy for the whole school, and sendmail as the school's email mailhost.
3. 486dx/25 with 3x6.4G hard drives, a 24xCD drive and 128M of RAM which is acting as the school's file server.
Personally, I don't believe any of those could even run NT, never mind serve their designated purposes...
My verdict: LONG LIVE LINU[SX]
Best wishes from Riley.
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