Newbie Questions

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On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 17:29, Mister Clever wrote:
> 2) Hardware specs.  To be honest, I was a little stunned by the hardware 
> requirements to run Fedora (memory / processor / hard drive space).  
> Obviously I can't pick up an old P166 at a swap meet and expect it to work.  
> What are the reasonable specs for a PC to run Linux?  Or is there a URL with 
> this info?

Other questions have already been answered well but you should take the
recommended HW requirements with a bit of a grain of salt.  If you are
not going to be using X windows and/or using the box just for a headless
FTP/etc. server (like you implied later), the HW requirements are much
less than the published ones.

I bet people have Fedora running on some pretty hardware that is pretty
old and/or way below the published requirements in some areas.

I had RH9 running on a P50 with 32MB of ram and a 1GB HD, and I think it
would be fine with Fedora as DMZ ftp server, firewall or similar.