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Hi, I use CentOS as a firewall/proxy/webserver/fileserver in my small network. As the small-spec machine with CentOS is heavily loaded/used I can't afford downtime. 20 GB, pentium II with only 128 MB RAM. However I want to know the news on 4.5 is it due soon? Can I gain more by running CentOS 3.x range on such an old machine like mine? Will CentOS 5.0 mean you need a minimum of 512 RAM?

...ums (eliminating fans would eliminate the "hums" too! :) But, I have also installed it (for test/backup) on my wife's discarded Aptiva w/ a real 486 and very little memory (I don't recall how much, whatever came from the factory... 32MB, 64MB, 128MB?). Also on an AMD 486 clone (x586?) 100MHz with 36MB of memory. Only differences observed seem related to half/full duplex nature of the NICs and raw speed. With my cable being in the "boonies" and a stock Toshiba cable model, good sites get me 600-700 kChars/sec on the Pentium, appx. 530K/sec on the AMD and 460K/sec on...