Ubuntu 5.10 minumum requirements

[cogyfarm]

Mike Bird wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 18:42, cogyfarm wrote:
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>>Felix Miata wrote:
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>>>What's less true is the minimum HD space requirement. Trying to fit any
>>>modern Linux on less than about 4GB is simply a bad idea, even if you
>>>ultimately succeed.
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>>I would suggest you take a serious look at Engarde before you say a 
>>modern linux can't/shouldn't run in a 4GB space!  Its simply erroneous!
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>Correct.  The amount of space needed depends upon what you want
>to do.  Useful Linux server configurations can fit in 600MB,
>plus space for whatever data is needed.  We have a gateway
>server at one site which does DNS, email, routing, dialup, and
>web proxy cache - on a 1.3GB hard drive in an old P75 with 40MB
>RAM.  The software on it is all up to date - Fedora in that
>case but Ubuntu and Debian are about the same size.
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>--Mike Bird
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Engarde is up to about 650mb of installed space fully installed now, but 
I remember a time when the whole shebang fit on a 540mb HD and didn't 
WANT more.  The wonderful thing is its running currently on an old 
p3c2000 with P3-600 256mb pc100 and only utilizing 84mb of it :D

Troy