On 2008-09-04, Giancarlo Razzolini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Never ran with 24MB, but note mentioned that I've run an openbsd > firewall on a pentium 133, with 32MB of ram. It had everything a > firewall for home uses need, DNS, DHCP and the firewall rules. I've > upgraded to 64MB so i could run a squid proxy, apache server and openvpn > server. Ran it for more than a year. OpenBSD is a very small footprint > operational system. I believe it will run in 24MB with no problems.
I had problems on a 32MB soekris 4526 just using it as an access point. bridge + hostap + that's it. but with swap available you could do more. I don't know how the installer will do with that little RAM; you may have to install the OS onto the hard drive on a machine with more. It's not going to make a normal workstation, that's for sure, but there are things you can do with it. X server, running apps remotely? perhaps, though I think you still have to be careful what you run. Basic router or nat gateway? maybe, but the network interfaces on that sort of laptop are going to suck. Cheap smallish device to leave at a colo site for when you need serial console access to machines? Got/can add USB? simple one-wire sensor controller with uow(4)? The cheapest Eee is considerably better-spec, of course...
