minimum hardware requirements for linux

[paengg]

what is the minimum hardware requirements for linux?

[vern]

Depends on what you want to run. It can vary from extremely low-end and old ... and scale to most of the recent hardware.

The question is ... what are you running?

[Tamblot]

ive tested installing fedora core 4 to a Pentium PC with 256MB ram and 10G HDD. The installation was successful but it can't boot even through CLI.

[paengg]

i have a celeron 400 with 64 mb of memory, and 5 gb of harddisk. im using it as a proxy server using winroute on windows 98. i would like to convert it to linux, to be used as a proxy server and also as a firewall. puede ra ne siya nga hardware? considering that gamay ra ang akung memory.

[vern]

ive tested installing fedora core 4 to a Pentium PC with 256MB ram and 10G HDD. The installation was successful but it can't boot even through CLI.

I do not think the hardware was what prevented it from booting from to the CLI. Things just weren't set up right

i have a celeron 400 with 64 mb of memory, and 5 gb of harddisk. im using it as a proxy server using winroute on windows 98. i would like to convert it to linux, to be used as a proxy server and also as a firewall. puede ra ne siya nga hardware? considering that gamay ra ang akung memory.

Pwede kaayo.

[Tamblot]

any probable cause vern?

[scarab]

Vern, about Jacklord's Question. any steps unsaon pag configure???

thanks.

[catch]

it depends on two things...

first, the flavor... for example, debian and slackware are known to run on older PCs, especially, when it has ONLY 8 MB of RAM. Ubuntu, however, runs with a minimum requirement of 128 MB of RAM.

and second, whether you're going to run XWindows or not... if you are fond of clicking around the menus and icons (just like you experienced in Win9x), XWindows is for you. historically, *nix systems in the older days were running only on consoles. GUIs are "in" due to demand for frinedly-user interface and, of course, graphics.

so, its up to your choice. choose one flavor, read the docs, and try getting used to it.

[vern]

any probable cause vern?

I'm guessing the bootloader isn't working or one of the drivers for the hardware or filesystem could not be initialized.

Vern, about Jacklord's Question. any steps unsaon pag configure???

thanks.

That depends where you start off from. sachem has given a few starting points.

[paengg]

i have recently installed and configured rh9 as a proxy server. do u have any suggestion in setting-up the firewall for my proxy server? is the default configuration of rh9 enough for the firewall?