Last night found me pushing the low-end of the performance curve, my 486 DX2 / 50Mhz, with 20 Mb RAM. I attempted installation of the latest frozen Debian GNU/Linux. I(t) failed miserably due to hardware issues. I need to replace the IDE controller, among other things. ;) The poor thing's had nothing but DOS on it for so many years, maybe it's hopeless...

Checked out the latest Asterisk code, and got it built. I'm working on turning the 486 into a comm server, hosting my phone/v-mail/fax, etc... So far, I'm thinking I'll run a rather recent dev kernel, or 2.4 for sure when it's out, since they have the Quicknet PhoneJack driver in, but for now, I'm still downloading the latest one from Quicknet, who I'm going to see tomorrow. :) Is VoIP really the way of the future? We'll see.