On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:12 +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
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?
As others have said, you should be fine with 384MB RAM. One thing to note - I think the graphical installer requires 512MB to run (check the release notes) so you would need to perform a text mode install. Do a fairly minimal install and add whatever you want afterwards with YUM.
I have been running FC 3 and now CentOS 5.1 on an old Gateway 2000 with only 256MB RAM. Both installed with GUI. Only some editing of services. I have 1 Gig of swap. I currently have 1 instance of emacs, Evolution, CDDBSlave2, Firefox 2.0.0.12 and 2 Gnome terminals plus a whole lot of services running most of which I *hope* I don't need. Screen refresh is slow but not too much. The machine starts to *really* slow down after about 15% swap. All I do is logout. Oh, this is my only computer. If anyone wants to tell me to buy a new one, please send me the money. Otherwise keep your silence. :-)
Bob