[olug] Distro recommendation

[Jon H. Larsen]

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 15:45, Ryan Stille wrote:
> > Will it be an internal only web server?
>
> Yes
>
> > Will you be using Samba for the file server duties?
>
> Yes
>
> > Have you looked at the link I posted earlier this week?
> > It was www.centos.org.
> > It is based on Red Hat Enterprise ES 3 Update 3.
>
> No but I will.
>
> > Why do you say Fedora is a resource hog?
>
> It's a 4 CD download, it just sounds like a lot more than what I need
> for this project.  And I was hoping to get started tonight, and I don't
> think I'd get all 4 ISOs downloaded that quickly.  I was looking at the
> requirements for some redhat-like os, I think it was WhiteBox, and it
> said 128MB minimum, 256MB minimum for graphical, 512MB recommended.  But
> I see now that Fedora lists lower requirements than that on their site
> (64MB min for text-mode only, 192MB min for graphical).

In the Fedora installation, choose the Minimal Install option from the package 
selection screen.  It only requires the First CD, and does not install any 
GUI apps.  It will install on a 200 MHz with 64 MB RAM.    After that, you 
can use Yum to install anything else you might need.


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