Replace one version of Linux with another 1048

Dan

I ran Red Hat Linux 9 on a 160 MHZ Pentium with 64 MBytes RAM and a 4.3 GByte hard drive. It did not work well because the RAM was just too small and it thrashed all the time. I raised the RAM to 256 MBytes and that helped a lot. For historical reasons, I raised it to 128MBytes and then to 256MBytes. 128 was enough (for RHL 9 that I do not recommend at this point), but it was still too slow for fun operation, though it did not do much paging (very little except at start-up).

I think that these days, especially if you are going to use X Window System and GNOME, you would want at least a 500 MHz Pentium 3 and 256MBytes RAM.

I have a machine with two 550MHz Pentium 3 processors and 512 MBytes RAM and it works well with CentOS 4.3 OS. As long as you put in a new distro, such as CentOS, and run it without windowing interface and install few programs, it might be a very good print server and firewall. Using iptables you can set up a dandy firewall.

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