[RULE] LinuxJournal article

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 22:23:23 EEST 2005


I emailed the editors at LinuxJournal about the possibility of doing
an article about RULE for them (I meant to mention this here on the
list, but forgot - sorry, folks), and after some weeks, the
Editor-in-Chief, Don Marti, has come back to me with a question - and
it's a good one. He says:

<<
Liam,


>> The idea of RULE is to allow Linux to be installed and used on old kit - 
>> from Pentium 1 machines from the late 90s right back to 486 machines and 
>> even 386s if you are particularly determined. A 66MHz 486 is still 
>> capable of flooding the average home ADSL connection if used as a router 
>> or firewall and with appropriate software such machines can not only be 
>> used as perfectly capable servers but can be viable workstations as 
>> well, capable of accessing the Internet and running useful productivity 
>> software.


I'm interested, but does RULE offer up-to-date
security updates?  I'm a little worried about Red Hat
variants since Fedora Legacy fell down for a while
leaving users stuck with switching distributions or
building their own updates.

-- 
Don Marti   
>>

Any thoughts?

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