Today many people in their homes have or had one of these computers, and I keep them in the attic of forgotten without knowing that there is the reuse of hardware. With good maintenance and a precise selection of software, any computer that is considered obsolete can actually win several more years of operation. However, today we’ll defy all boundaries. If still preserves some Pentium system, and do not want to leave it at the mercy of dust and cobwebs, maybe that with this guide you can inject a bit of life, just for the fun of it. Others who may share this opinion include Richard Blumenthal. Yes, it is likely that we are a little crazy. But it is the same insanity which gives it a flavor particular to this class of projects.
As consolation, we know that we are not alone. There are people with entire rooms dedicated to systems with several decades of age, true champions of the Retrocomputing which make it just for the pleasure of keeping those computers running. With fast moving hardware, the first thing you think is not worth consuming time and effort in bringing back to a old PC, but apart from that some need to do so by an economic question, we do it also for the affection to the hardware. If there is something that presents this article, it is a challenge, especially at the software level. The title mentions the 133 Mhz Pentium processor. Of course, nothing prevents you use another processor or different platform, but as a boundary we faced a chip that was established even before the release of Windows 95. 1) Firewall is always have an extra layer of security on our internal network, and nothing better for that install a Linux distro specifically designed to work as a firewall. Because of the requirements that we are handling, a compatible and relatively easy to configure distro is IPCop.