Re: [opensuse] Hardware req. for server?

Per Jessen wrote:
Russell Jones wrote:

Per Jessen wrote:
Jan Karjalainen wrote:
What's the hardware requirements for openSUSE 10.2 in text mode
only? I have a Pentium II 300MHz with 192 MB RAM, which I'm going to
use as a web and ftp/nfs/samba server.
Does it have enough horsepower, or should I look for another distro?
It depends on what sort of load you expect, but I've got a Pentium
233MMX with 128M running 10.2 just fine.
Fair enough. You're not running beagle or ZMD on it are you?

I'll have to check - ZMD almost certainly. It's actually a vanilla
openSUSE 10.2 install.

What packages do you have installed? Or if the list's too long, how
many?

I think the total install was about 1.6G, but I don't know how many
packages - is there an easy way to look it up?
rpm -ql | wc -l
What package management system do you use?

Vanilla YaST. Granted, it is slow and when running in just 128M, it's
swapping quite a bit too. With 196M it's fine.
Quite. I think something like Debian 3.1 is better suited to this job. If it's just running as a firewall (and not, say, an HTTP proxy server), swapping won't be an issue. However, I'd find the slowness when adding new packages (bridging tools, say) irritating. I guess I could live with it if I had to or I was more familiar with SuSE. I have been using Debian since '99. I got the linuxemporium.co.uk "Cheap Linux" bundle ( http://linuxemporium.co.uk/products/general/#pid4170 ) and gave Slackware, Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, etc all a go. Things have moved on a lot since then, though :-)
This machine is meant to replace our current firewall/gateway which is
an ancient 486DX2 with 24M running suse 7.1. It's doing perfectly fine,
but we want to upgrade to a more recent suse version.
I guess it'd be nice to have some of the newer kernel features. Packet filtering tables have changed a bit over the last few releases of Linux, BTW, with the introduction of xTables (forget the exact names) of which IP tables are a particular type, and I think some other types of table (which I haven't had cause to use).


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