Re: [CentOS] Running CentOS on very old hardware

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 07:14 -0400, 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.

There's too little memory to even get CentOS installed. You might want to take a look at RULE if you want a RH-derived distro.