2) Hardware specs. To be honest, I was a little stunned by the hardware requirements to run Fedora (memory / processor / hard drive space).
Obviously I can't pick up an old P166 at a swap meet and expect it to work.
What are the reasonable specs for a PC to run Linux? Or is there a URL with this info?
FYI, I run several home and small office firewalls, from 2 people and 128 Kbps up to and including 1 Mbps links and 100 people behind the firewall. These boxes run as gateways/routers/firewalls doing masquerading and Internet access for their network and also serve up tftp/rarpd/dhcpd/named/ntpd for those networks. One of two of them even run web/ftp/database servers (on the internal interface only, for testing purposes).
All of those machines run Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) in text mode, and none is more powerful than a Pentium Classic (non-MMX even) at 166 MHz, with 64MB RAM and a 2GB hard drive. The least powerful is a P/75 with 32MB and 500MB. A GUI desktop of course would take lots more resources, but in text these things run beautifully.
I will begin moving some of them to Fedora soon.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
