Minimum hardware requirement

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Hi all

Newbie type question from a complete Linux newbie.

I have a spare PC, 133 MHz, 32 meg of ram, that I would like to set up as a Linux server to do some development work with MySql.

Performance would not be important - is this spec high enough for the stated purpose?

Thanks in advance HTH

Chris

 

[RhythmAce]

Yes, that should work with no problem. If you plan on using xwindows with Gnome or KDE you may see that they use quite a bit of your resources but for what you want to do, it should be just fine.

 

[Jaysbar]

No problem at all! Try to have a minimum 1 gig HD and you'll be well beyond the minimum spec for Linux!

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

RhythmAce and Jaysbar

Thanks for the info HTH

Chris

 

[chiph]

I have a very similar setup - Pentium Classic (with floating-point bug!) 133Mhz, 64mb RAM, 4gb hard drive, Matrox video card. Works great.

Chip H.