fedora core on an 266 MHz pentium 2

[tanis]

well would it run.
i have 64 mb ram as well.
i am hoping to make this a cheap router/fileserver/webhost.
how well do you think this will work.

[Nels664868]

I have a 400Mhz P2 with 128M ram as a gateway/router
it is running FC1 ok text only no GUI
your setup should be ok for text only no Xwindows,but if you want a GUI upgrade the ram to at least 256M

[tanis]

no iguess i'll forgo the the gui.
but can i use use FC 3 or FC 4 when it comes cuz thats what i have and am using in my regular computer.
btw can it serve as a modest webhost and bittorrent tracker with the above setup.

[bitrain]

Without the gui it should work, with gui, no (or really sloowww).

[tanis]

well i really did not intend to run the gui on it anyway so no biggie
thnks

[tanis]

hey i was wondering
my regular computer takes only 90 mb of ram and no swap space in linux so why is a 256 mb ram needed.

[bitrain]

When you have more programs open your ram usage will increase. You can use fedora with less ram then 256, I tried with 128MB and it worked too (but slower). I believe I had core 1 even running with 64 MB ram on a pII 350 MHz (I installed it when there was 128MB in the system).

[tanis]

ok so if i use core 1 then there is less hardware requiremnet.
which would you think is best to use FC4 or FC3