On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Jeffrey B. Layton laytonjb@charter.net 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 an old Toshiba Tecra laptop with a P3 running 600MHz and 256MB of memory. I installed CentOS 5.1 with the graphical installer, and it runs GNOME fairly well. It's slow (compared to my main desktop, but that's an AMD 64x2 4200+ with 4GB of memory), but I expect that with an older, slower CPU like this (as opposed to a molasses crawl /old/ CPU :-). I use OOo 2.4 on it, and that is also slow, but it runs, and I always use the command line interface whenever I can, but that's 'cuz I'm more comfortable there, and it works nicely all around.
YMMV
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