Damn Small Linux is a light-weight operating system designed to run on older computers which might not have the speedy processors, large hard drives, or vast amounts of RAM available on newer systems.

Just for curiousity's sake I was wondering if it would be possible to setup a computer using some sort of linux to act as a DSL Modem.<BR><BR>A DSL Modem emulator of sorts<BR><BR>A modem not a router, ...

There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286.