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.