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In the mid-2000s I was using a nice single-floppy router distribution called freesco. I thought it worked pretty well, but I didn't put it under any stress. I
by jrootabega 5y ago
In the mid-2000s I was using a nice single-floppy router distribution called freesco. I thought it worked pretty well, but I didn't put it under any stress.
I don't know if the project still has the same soul as it did then, but here it is:
https://www.freesco.org/ https://www.freesco.org/
- bluedino 5y agoI found a small Pentium 100MHz desktop in the trash back then, stuck a spare pair of 3com NICs in it, and loaded up Turbolinux that I got with a Linux magazine. Followed the Linux IP Masquerade HOWTO (http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/howto/m-html/ipmasq-HOWTO-m.html http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/howto/m-html/ipmasq-HOWTO-m....), and I soon had it running the network in my apartment building with a cable modem and 100mb SMC hub (also from a dumpster) A couple weeks later I came home to find the internet "not working", it got hacked (I never applied updates), and I replaced it with Freesco and never looked back.
- gattilorenz 5y agoI had to click the link to find out it's not FreeSCO (i.e. Not a free version of SCO Unix), which would have been quite... surprising. Buried deep into SCO's FTP server there still is a bootable single-floppy demo of SCO OpenServer intended for POS devices or so, but it's lacking any kind of GUI and most command line utilities...
- gattilorenz 5y agonot even that deep: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/pos/demo/demofloppy
- jrootabega 5y agoYeah, I seem to remember there being a steady amount of confusion over that at all times. I think it was supposed to be "free Cisco."