[CentOS] Re: Running CentOS on very old hardware
Doug
dsommer at redheadweb.dyndns.org
Wed May 4 22:42:24 UTC 2005
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
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