so i dug up the old-school machine that i want to put linux on, and everyone says that its great for older slower machines. BUT, is there a limit to that? the machine i want to use is a pentium, a blazing fast 75mhz!! with like 16mg RAM...and a huge 500 mg hard drive. now know that its too old for any new linux (ie redhat 7.3 which i just finished downloading) but it was running win95 just fine and was good when it was on dial-up modem for email etc...
i would like to practice some networking and have linux on the old machine networked to my 1.8ghz 512RAM 80gig hD and cable modem...what can i do/should i do...any advice? should i just trash the old box and find something a little bit newer or can i make this work with a different linux OS?
thanks
LeadBelly