[H-GEN] DX 386

[robert stanford]

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If you are interested in GUI type stuff, I'd recomend you turn the
machine into a thin client. 16Mb of ram would be nice but 8Mb might do
running a swap via nfs.

Look at www.ltsp.org for details.

Of course you need another linux machine on the same network to act as
the server. I can give you a hand setting up the server at next humbug
if you like.

BTW I run a 486-dx66 as my gateway at home with a software modem
(winmodem), dhcpd, sshd, poptop and web based admin all within 16Mb ram
and booting off a floppy disk. Uptimes vary depending on when the next
power outage will be. Without a software based modem I'd assume a 386
would handle the same load no problems.

Robert Stanford

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