On 5/13/05, kenkensmile@netscape.net kenkensmile@netscape.net wrote:
Yes, you are exactly right. My notebook has a slow video hardware(8MB). Unfortunately, I cannot upgrade memory up to 512MB, because 256MB is the maximum capacity. I have also found an article that MS is making a new OS for old computers, so I just simply thought I would like to have a mini-centOS.
If you want to compare CentOS to this, then you have to realize that this "lightweight" version of MS will only run a remote desktop session (Terminal Service), a browser (IE), a music app (MSWindows Media Player), a virus scanner and a file navigation utility (Explorer).
As others have pointed out, you can easily setup a minimal version of CentOS which can do these things:
Select "minimal" during the install Add in rdesktop, xfce, firefox, clamav if you really want the virus scan, add xmms or similar and you have an equivalent system which I believe would be much snappier than the WindowsXP/Embedded equivalent.
Regards, Greg