Proposed Linux server

[sorrodp at alum.wpi.edu (Pedro Soria-Rodriguez)]

Henry Smith wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am cobbling together a home network and I want to use Linux as the
> Gateway/Firewall etc and as the mail server for the users on the network.
> I scrounged an old Gateway P5-60 with a 700 MB disk and 8MB Ram.

   I do the same thing with a 486-66, 350 MB disk and 16 MB RAM,
and Redhat 6.1.  It is my gateway, firewall, web server, ftp
server, with more than 10 users, etc...
   So your P5 should be good enough.  You may wanna add some more RAM to
run X-Windows.

--
Pedro Soria-Rodriguez
sorrodp at alum.wpi.edu

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