Fedora the right choice?

[WipeOut]

Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

> At 14:35 3/3/2004, you wrote:
>
>> FYI, I'm running a 450MHz PIII box with 596MB memory as a small 
>> server doing
>> mail (POP and IMP webmail for user interface, sendmail as the MTA, 
>> and file
>> and print services for the PCs in the house).  Most of the time the 
>> machine
>> sits idle.  It's connected via a 100Mbps el-cheapo network card to the
>> broadband router.
>
>
> Heh... I'm using two machines with Pentium (Classic) CPUs at 166MHz, 
> 32MB of RAM, and a 1GB hard drive as firewall/gateway, DHCP, DNS, and 
> NTP servers. One runs at my house, with three or four client machines 
> behind it, and the other runs at my office with about 30 machines 
> behind it. Both work like a charm, run Fedora Core 1 with my idea of a 
> minimal install, and *still* sit idle most of the time.
>
>
All those services you are running are very "light", most commercial 
firewalls only use P1 or Celeron procs anyway so what you have is pretty 
much the same hardware spec as a commercial firewall that would cost 
thousands if you had to buy it.. Also products like WatchGuard firewalls 
run a Linux OS anyway.. :)

Later..