One way to help CentOS or any other Linux to run well on lower end systems is to use a lighter weight windowing environment. I've had great luck with Xfce4 instead of GNOME or KDE. Also adding RAM helps alot...
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:41:01 -0800, Geoff Galitz galitz@berkeley.edu wrote:
My current desktop is an AMD Athlon running at 800Mhz. It is very chunky, but I think it is more the old IDE disks in it than the processor.
-geoff