On Thursday 29 May 2008 12:31:17 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?
For a time I ran FC6 on a laptop with only 256MB RAM, and I ran kde! It was slow, yes, but quite usable as long as I did one thing at a time. Considering the similarity between FC6 and CentOS5 I would think you'd be OK, using it with care. ISTR that Firefox occasionally caused runaway cpu, but I doubt if the same problem exists in the current CentOS version.
Anne