On 10/31/2014 10:17 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Always Learning<centos at u62.u22.net> said: >> >Hopefully ? there is a Linux capable of providing conventional >> >facilities on old, but working, 32-bit desktop and portable equipment >> >which could be given to the needy people. > CentOS 6 didn't just disappear; it should still get updates through 2020 > IIRC (by which time most of the 32 bit only hardware will probably have > died). Just because the latest-greatest came out doesn't mean you have > to upgrade to it. indeed. my old server at home still runs linux kernel 2.2.24, with an ipchains firewall on an old p3. it serves a few static html pages with apache 1.3. its an authoritative DNS server, with bind 9.6 that I built and configured by hand. I'm hoping to replace it with a pfSense firewall next week, and move my static webpages to my freeNAS box. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast