We put Fedora through rigorous tests in a production environment. We installed it on three systems using two strictly as desktops and one as a workstation and server. The workload included producing commercial documentation, remote administration of six high traffic servers, a sales and secretarial desk. This allowed us to see how Fedora would perform over several days in the real world.

The workstation/server ran on a Gateway 550 Pentium III with 384 MBs of PC 100 RAM, a 3Com Ethernet card and an ATI Rage 128 AGP video card. We configured it as a samba and NFS server. We also utilized it as a print server with a Brother 1440 Laser printer and an Epson 777 color printer. Finally, we attached an UMAX 3400 scanner.

The first desktop ran an Intel Pentium IV 2.4 Ghz processor with 512 MBs of DDR 2100 RAM, Intel 845 Chipset, an onboard i845 Intel video card with 3D graphics enabled. We configured it as desktop productivity suite with heavy graphics use, word processing and desktop publishing. We enabled samba and NFS.

The second desktop desktop ran on a Gateway 550 Pentium III with 384 MBs of PC 100 Ram and similar hardware as the workstation/server. We deployed an ATI Radeon 9000 DRI video card with an Apple Studio Display, Apple Keyboard and Logitech Optical mouse with scroll wheel. We configured it as desktop productivity suite with heavy graphics use, word processing and desktop publishing. We enabled samba and NFS.

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