Re: RFC - Fedora on old hardware

[Pete Nesbitt <pete linux1 ca>]

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