>If you want to run a database backend for a CMS (if I remember >correctly, that's what drupal is, right?), you'll need even more RAM -- >my machine slowed noticably when I've run mysql in the past. But it's >certainly do-able on this hardware, and the ram for these machines is >still fairly easily obtainable and cheap. > i've done this on an old 486, 16MB of RAM, with an active CMS site. it worked fine, but required a degree of patience. (lots of swapping)