5-Current on Pentium-I with old hardware: still risky?

Joshua Lokken joshua at twobirds.us
Sun Apr 18 12:20:37 PDT 2004


* Rob <nospam at users.sourceforge.net> [2004-04-18 06:16]:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have an old Pentium-1, which I like to configure as a router
> for a home network, with a minimal amount of user applications
> for system maintenance only.
 
A good idea.  Those machines do a great job of that very task.

> 
> My simple and old Pentium-1 PC may therefore a very low risk system for
> installing 5-Current. Is that right? Or am making a big mistake here?
 
Well, IMHO, yes to the mistake part.  If this box will indeed be a
router for your home net, and it's already running 4-stable, why touch
it?  Remove unnecessary things from the system and let it run.  It
doesn't sound like the best machine to try 5 on, anyway.

--
Joshua

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