“System requirements are any 386 or better with a floppy drive,
16 MB RAM. You can get away with as little as 8 MB by running
Freesco on a hard drive with a swap file. Using a hard drive makes
room for extensions and Web serving. I like the idea of no moving
parts at all- no fan, no hard drive. Once it’s installed, it
doesn’t even require a monitor or keyboard.“Make a FreeSCO disk in either Windows or Linux. Download
FreeSCO from http://www.freesco.org/dload/index.shtml. Get two
files: freesco-027, and modules-027, and unpack them in a temporary
directory. The current version is 0.2.7. That’s right, it’s not
even a 1.0. However, I have found it to be extremely stable and
dependable, running for months with no problems. It is based on the
Linux 2.0.38 kernel, and contains dependable Unix DHCP, DNS, and
dialup components…”
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