[ale] looking for a very lightweight distro

[jcpilman at gmail.com]

I'll second: Debian.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:25 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> Debian.
>
> On Wednesday, July 14, 2010, jrtroberts <jrtroberts at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am looking for a very lightweight distro, something to run on a P2 era
> > computer maybe a bit earlier, It only needs to function as a router.  So
> > I need to use IP Tables to route between maybe two - five networks, My
> > sisters lan/internet connection in her APT and my father's backup
> > server(on a separate VLAN) in the house proper.  I am hoping that my
> > father has an old box that has room for 2 nic cards.  That seems to be
> > the cheapest route at the moment.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Joshua
>
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