[CentOS] Re: Running CentOS on very old hardware

Alfred von Campe wrote:

A friend has an old Pentium-133 laptop with 32MB of memory and a 1.3 GB hard disk that he wants to use as a web server for a very small community. Will CentOS (or any other RHEL derived distribution for that matter) install and run with acceptable performance on such a system, or will a specialized distribution like Damn Small Linux be a better choice? In this case, disk space is not a big concern so getting the smallest footprint is not a high priority.

Alfred

I would worry about the RAM. I am running my family server on a PII 266 with 256 of ram. No issues. I have a backup/test server which is a 133 with 64 of ram. No GUI on either of these systems though.

Doug