[CentOS] Running CentOS on very old hardware

Wed May 4 20:00:44 UTC 2005
ryan <ryanag at zoominternet.net>

Just my $.02 - there are more appropriate distros that can do what you
are asking.

Check out:

DSL Linux
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/index.html
"Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram"

Vecor Linux
http://www.vectorlinux.com/
"a distribution that only reguires 175 megs of disk space for full
install and a system with 16MB of RAM"



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.
> 
> Alfred
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