On 06/05/2017 11:15 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 10:31:10AM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I've got an old HP Netbook, which is just fine for taking with when I'm travelling, to check email and news. I have a very old Ubuntu netbook-remix on it, and it really, *really* needs to be updated to something current. I, of course, would prefer CentOS....
The question is: I see that *if* the specs I just looked up (I'm at work, not home, where I could just turn it on, but they sound right) Atom N270 CPU, 2G RAM, 160GB drive - what should I put on it, C6 or C7? Upgrading the memory's not going to happen, so it's got to live with that size.
Opinions (please, no flame wars), just what will be most responsive on a machine this small?
I think the Atom N270 is a 32-bit processor, no?
that means either no C7, or you will have to use the unofficial 32-bit build, and I don't know if it is being kept up to date.
also, 3rd-party repositories (epel, et al) aren't offering 32-bit packages for C7, either, so if you depend on any of them for packages you really care about (e.g., I can't use gnome-3.x, I use epel's Mate Desktop packages) you'll be stuck.
We have an i386 version of CentOS-7 from the altarch SIG:
https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/i386
It should theoretically work with that processor .. at least one could test it and see.