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.
Either put more memory, or go with some older distribution. CentOS 3.x
might run on it, not sure what are memory requirements for it. RHEL 2.x
would run even better.
64MB should be more that enough for CentOS4 as long as you use it as
dedicated plain web server (no fancy stuff, no PHP, no databases, only
static content). SSL would slow down things somewhat, but would be
acceptable. If you install only basic packages (no X, no additional
utilities, no development packages) the installation will take up
somewhere around 500MB.
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