Hi;<br><br> Thanks to all of the suggestions and comments.<br><br>Ken Wolcott<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Guillermo Garron</b> <<a href="mailto:guillermo.fedora@gmail.com">
guillermo.fedora@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 1/8/07, Kenneth Wolcott <<a href="mailto:kennethwolcott@gmail.com">
kennethwolcott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi;<br>><br>> I'm new to the CentOS list and I only have experience with CentOS 4.3/4.4<br>> on desktops. I just installed CentOS 4.4 on a very old Dell Inspiron 3500
<br>> laptop. I choose the desktop option and then deleted the kde and gnome<br>> packages because I have only 192mb RAM and 4gb disk (total). I'd like<br>> suggestions on how to maximize the effective usage of the laptop with CentOS
<br>> 4.4...as a minimum I want to do secure wireless web browsing. If KDE or<br>> GNOME needs more disk/RAM than I have available is XCFE the only alternative<br>> to the bleak Motif experience? I don't have any money to get a better
<br>> laptop or to upgrade the RAM and/or disk at this time.<br>I am sorry if I am broking any netiquete of the list here,<br><br>But I recommend you.<br>Xubuntu (<a href="http://www.xubuntu.org">http://www.xubuntu.org
</a>)<br>DSL (<a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/">http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/</a>)<br>puppy Linux (<a href="http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1">http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1
</a>)<br><br>As they are designed for small *old* PCs.<br><br>regards,<br><br>--<br>Guillermo Garron<br>"Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."<br>(Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu
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