Gio's Linux Hardware Page
I saw many people trying to find minimum hardware requirement for Linux.
For mine, I got 4 Linux boxes in my administration for different purposes,
let's see my minimum.
These server are still alive and running.
CPU | RAM | HDD Space (Swap size) |
Purpose (# of Regular Users) |
Basic running services |
AM486-DX2/80 | 16MB | 540 MB (20MB) |
Experimental and personal multi-purpose server (~2) |
Web, ftp, mail, DNS, SAMBA |
P-75 | 48MB | 540+420MB (64MB) |
Company mail server, proxy server, dial-up server, DNS server (20+) |
Web, ftp, mail, proxy, DNS, SAMBA, dial-in |
P-120 | 64MB | 5GB (64MB) |
Multiple domains webserver, dial-up server, DNS server, file server, mail server (30+) |
Web, ftp, mail, DNS, SAMBA, dial-in |
P-75 | 48MB | 2GB (64MB) |
Company gateway server, proxy server, file server (<=14) |
Web, ftp, mail, proxy, DNS, SAMBA |