[CentOS] Running CentOS on very old hardware

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

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.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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