I installed #NetBSD i386 on a old, totally wrecked, Thinkpad iSeries 1200 with only 64MB of RAM. I had some previous experience with OpenBSD, so it was mostly painless. I'm still jealous of BSD's
I'm not disappointed by the result, it still could be used as a semi dumb terminal for
ifconfig(8)
and especially the /etc/ifconfig.<interface_name>
configuration system โค๏ธI'm not disappointed by the result, it still could be used as a semi dumb terminal for
ssh(1)
. The memory usage is low because I deactivated all services but cron(8)
; it may be lower with a tailored kernel, but I don't mind ๐