Re: Red Hat on an Older Machine - Which Version? [REPOST]

[Aly Dharshi <aly dharshi uleth ca>]

I think that you could prolly get away with something like RH 7.2 in the
least given that you install only the things that you need, so that
would mean that the MP3 player gets chucked along with all the database
servers for instance !

	Cheers,

	Aly.

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 21:23, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:20:00PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 14:02, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:
> > > I have a "server" at home (well, it's just an old desktop that I've turned
> > > into a server) on which I would like to install Red Hat Linux. The
> > > specifications for the hardware are as follows:
> > > 
> > > P1 133
> > > 64MB of RAM
> > > 2GB IDE HD
> > > Intel ProExpress 10/100 Network Card
> > > 
> > > Which version would be the best to install on this system? I just want to
> > > run 1 small site on it and a few e-mail accounts. That would be the sole
> > > task of this machine. Thanks.
>  
> > I'd put RH 6 on it. Should be just fine and dandy.
> 
> Beware that if you put anything this old on, you'd better be prepared to
> go through some extra steps to get security patches installed and you
> should have a good firewall.  Red Hat will stop releasing security
> patches for 6.2 at the end of next month.  A current sendmail source rpm
> will rebuild on 6.2 so you'll be okay there.  
> 
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