RE: Linux Y2K problems ! => small linux ?

From: Greg Blakely (etqqoni@datasiel.net)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 16:46:02 EET

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    You may want to look at what they're doing at the Linux Router Project.

    It sounds like it has much of what you want.

    http://www.linuxrouter.org/

    73, Greg

    kb0tdf

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: tkwm.neowd@mail.dy.fi
    > [mailto:twr.nltsnwphdu@ccproofs.com]On Behalf Of Niall Parker
    > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 17:44
    > To: vooqil@net.gy
    > Subject: Re: Linux Y2K problems ! => small linux ?
    >
    >
    > [snip]
    > > > - Motherboard : ABIT PD5N Pentium-166(IBM)
    > > > - Linux Redhat 4.2 with 2.0.35 kernel
    > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    > > I don't believe that this is Y2K compliant... Considering that you
    > > are two major releases and a couple of years out of date, I'm
    > not surprised
    > > if you got burned.
    > >
    > [snip]
    > > Try upgrading to something more recent.
    > >
    > > > 73
    > > > Cees Tool - PA3AES
    > >
    > > Mike
    > > --
    > > Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | cvvl.lskfpuer@univie.ac.at
    > > (The Mad Wizard) | (770) 331-2437 |
    > http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/
    > > NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the
    > best of all
    > > PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
    >
    > ... on a marginally related question ...
    >
    > Once upon a time, I could get a fair bit of functionality onto a single
    > single floppy, making it practical to build radio
    > routers/terminals without
    > harddrives and minimal (< 8MB) RAM. When I looked at updating the
    > cramdisks
    > I've been using, I was stumped by the considerable increase in the size of
    > the kernel generally and libc in particular ... going from an older libc5
    > to glibc seems to need 5-6 times the memory !
    >
    > Any ideas on getting the current kernels and utils down in size ?
    >
    > ... Niall
    >



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