Another one for the bookmarks (quoting LangaList):
FREESCO (stands for FREE ciSCO) is a free replacement for commercial routers supporting up to 3 ethernet/arcnet/token_ring/arlan network cards and up to 2 modems. Why should you use Freesco? Ease of use – it’s insanely easy to set up Thoroughly documented – it’s more or less self contained, read one doc and you’re off and running Like most players in this field, it runs off one floppy Freesco runs in as little as 6 Mb RAM. Unique Web Control Panel Freesco is the easiest to use, one disk Linux system available.
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Just to note, when you go to the site, it says nearly the same thing as your quote, except the 2 and 3 are replaced with 10s, and the 6 is replaced with an 8.
Yeah, but it runs on as little as a 386 🙂
That’s why the kernel is a 2.0.x
Hey, I said I quoted the Langalist, Rick. I was too lazy to actually read through everything on the site (hehe).
And Kernal 2.0x is still far more stable than any Windows-based firewall, that’s for sure.
I’m still kind of amazed that nobody has mastered creating an open-source real-time OS for networking equipment or similar. I feel as though much can be gained — perhaps a few extra magnitudes of performance squeezed out of older hardware for instance — if a real time OS were deployed in such a situation instead of applying old versions of Linux to every problem 🙂
Or rather, oo, haven’t I heard of a realtime-scheduling linux kernel around somewhere?