On December 31, 2004 09:18 am, mark wrote: > Ok, I'm having trouble with my home network firewall box, and it may > need a reinstall (hard drive problems). > > This is a 166MHz Pentium-S. Don't even *think* of telling me to go out > and buy new hardware.... It's got under 100M RAM, and I'm not sure I > have space to put more DIMMs in. > > It's a firewall/router, and *nothing* else. I don't install X on such a > box. > > So, I'd like some comments: should I go to Fedora 2 or 3? Is it the case > that with 2, it started using kernel 2.6? If so, do I have to worry > about speed, or memory size? > > mark > -- > "I've heard it said that we only use 10% of our minds. Imagine > what we could accomplish if we could use the other 60%" > - Ellen Degeneres Hi, I'm not using Fedora, but I have a dedicated FW box that performs very respectfully. It is a P2 200MHz, 64MB running RH9, 2.4.20 kernel. My web server is basicly the same setup but with a scsi-160 drive (a gift from someones garbage heap:-) I use fedoralegacy.org for updates. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
