Hardware/Software requirement on IC5141 installation

[designwinner]

My friend,

I am thinking to install IC5141 as well on Linux distribution, got few questions which need your advice… Very urgent!!!

Hardware
1) Is that a generic PC (such as a Dell dimension 3100) suitable to install RHEL3, Suse10 or CentOS4? Is that difficult to find all drivers for Ethernet card, Graphic card?

DimensionTM 3100
• Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 630 with HT Technology (2MB L2 cache, 3GHz, 800MHz FSB)
• Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
• 512MB (1X512) DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
• 80GB SATA Hard Drive 3.0Gb with NCQ
• 16X DVD-ROM Drive
• Graphic Card : Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900


2) Do I need buy a 64 bit capable PC? Or I can just stick to 32bit PC?

3) Can anyone suggest a good hardware configuration?


Software
3) Where can I find RHEL3, Suse10 ISO download?


Thanks in advance!!

 

[erixlion]

in my class, they still using SUN which is 200MHZ 128M ram, work well even for our middle size projects .(they use IC 4.46)

I am using a slow PC at home, 533MHZ, 256M ram, working great.(I am using IC 5.141)