Richard M
27-07-2003, 01:18
Hi guys, I just got a couple of old PCs given to me.
One is an AMD K62 300 with 96MB which I plan to install Win 2000 on and use for my file downloading with eMule and things so I can play games with my main computer and still download stuff without system slowdown.
The other PC is a Pentium MMX 166 with 32MB of RAM which I want to use as some kind of router and firewall.
Both PCs have Windows ME at the moment but which OS would be best for the Pentium firewall machine and can anyone recommend software to do the job (or can it all be done within the OS)?
The choices for me are:
Leave as Windows ME (not a good idea really).
Install Windows 2000 (might struggle a bit but a good OS).
A Linux distro.
I also have Windows 3.11 and IBM OS 2.1 on floppy disks... :rofl:
One is an AMD K62 300 with 96MB which I plan to install Win 2000 on and use for my file downloading with eMule and things so I can play games with my main computer and still download stuff without system slowdown.
The other PC is a Pentium MMX 166 with 32MB of RAM which I want to use as some kind of router and firewall.
Both PCs have Windows ME at the moment but which OS would be best for the Pentium firewall machine and can anyone recommend software to do the job (or can it all be done within the OS)?
The choices for me are:
Leave as Windows ME (not a good idea really).
Install Windows 2000 (might struggle a bit but a good OS).
A Linux distro.
I also have Windows 3.11 and IBM OS 2.1 on floppy disks... :rofl: