On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 06:55 -0400, kenkensmile@netscape.net wrote:
I am using centOS for my server and centOS is extremely stable. I almost love centOS more than my wife. However, centOS is a bit heavy to run on my notebook (P III 1G, 256MB RAM). I need gnome, firefox, openoffice, realplayer, gaim, acrobat and thunderbird on my notebook, but if I install all of them (plus base-system), my notebook becomes very slow. I wish I could have a lighter version of centOS for notebooks and old desktops. Is there any project that I could have a mini-centOS in the future???
Joe
It won't get much faster if you choose those products :)
There is XFCE-4.2 that you could install instead of GNOME or KDE
do:
yum groupinstall XFCE-4.2
and pick XFCE as the session you log in to at the main screen by selecting session ... it should be faster
If you want to change permanently ... do:
switchdesk XFCE
You can get a minimum install by doing a minimal install from anaconda ... then doing:
yum groupinstall XFCE-4.2 "X Window System" "Office/Productivity"
then install the individual things you want via yum...
I'll do that on a test box and tell you how much space it is :)