Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
Good morning,
I've inherited an old laptop from my wife that I'd like to use when I travel (it's fairly small with a 12" screen). The bad part is that it is maxed out on memory with 384MB. Has anyone played with using Centos5 on systems with little memory? Ideally, I don't need too much - Firefox, Openoffice, a little Perl/Python/C here and there. I was thinking about using either XFCE or Icewm as the window manager. I'd also like it to work with the existing wireless card (Dlink DWL-G650). Any thoughts or recommendations?
I have a number of 256Mb Centos installs here with Gnome. I shut off as many services as possible, and it runs. I made the swap partition (Yes I manually create a separate swap partition instead of running it in LVM) at least 512Mb if not more.
Firefox 1.5 works fine. Watch yourself with OpenOffice, don't have too much running.
One trick I do with Centos servers running with only 256Mb, is run VNCserver and then from my notebook access with Gnome. This works great, only a one line change in the vnc files to have Gnome as your GUI on the server.