Using CentOS 4.4 on very old Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop; would like suggestions regarding using KDE/GNOME in low RAM and low disk situation
Hi;
I'm new to the CentOS list and I only have experience with CentOS 4.3/4.4 on desktops. I just installed CentOS 4.4 on a very old Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop. I choose the desktop option and then deleted the kde and gnome packages because I have only 192mb RAM and 4gb disk (total). I'd like suggestions on how to maximize the effective usage of the laptop with CentOS 4.4...as a minimum I want to do secure wireless web browsing. If KDE or GNOME needs more disk/RAM than I have available is XCFE the only alternative to the bleak Motif experience? I don't have any money to get a better laptop or to upgrade the RAM and/or disk at this time.
Thanks, Ken Wolcott
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 11:27 -0600, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
Hi;
I'm new to the CentOS list and I only have experience with CentOS 4.3/4.4 on desktops. I just installed CentOS 4.4 on a very old Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop. I choose the desktop option and then deleted the kde and gnome packages because I have only 192mb RAM and 4gb disk (total). I'd like suggestions on how to maximize the effective usage of the laptop with CentOS 4.4...as a minimum I want to do secure wireless web browsing. If KDE or GNOME needs more disk/RAM than I have available is XCFE the only alternative to the bleak Motif experience? I don't have any money to get a better laptop or to upgrade the RAM and/or disk at this time.
Thanks, Ken Wolcott
You can install other light window managers like fluxbox , icewm, ...... availables in the rpmforge repo (http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories)
Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
Hi;
I'm new to the CentOS list and I only have experience with CentOS 4.3/4.4 on desktops. I just installed CentOS 4.4 on a very old Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop. I choose the desktop option and then deleted the kde and gnome packages because I have only 192mb RAM and 4gb disk (total). I'd like suggestions on how to maximize the effective usage of the laptop with CentOS 4.4...as a minimum I want to do secure wireless web browsing. If KDE or GNOME needs more disk/RAM than I have available is XCFE the only alternative to the bleak Motif experience? I don't have any money to get a better laptop or to upgrade the RAM and/or disk at this time.
There are reasons RH doesn't support less than 256 Mbtes of RAM with RHEL 4.
Earlier releases of CentOS (earlier==better) should perform much better, and you could also browse www.distrowatch.com for lighter distros.
One that comes to mind is Damn Small Linux.
OpenSUSE with fvwm _might_ do it; I used to run RHL 6.2 quite happily in 64 Mbytes (5.x in less), and the main differences these days is KDE+Gnome+their libraries, along with Mozilla (and its kin) and OpenOffice.org.
Prior to RHL 7.x, the main desktop environment was FVWM, that's why I think OpenSUSE might work for you.
On 1/8/07, Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolcott@gmail.com wrote:
Hi;
I'm new to the CentOS list and I only have experience with CentOS 4.3/4.4 on desktops. I just installed CentOS 4.4 on a very old Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop. I choose the desktop option and then deleted the kde and gnome packages because I have only 192mb RAM and 4gb disk (total). I'd like suggestions on how to maximize the effective usage of the laptop with CentOS 4.4...as a minimum I want to do secure wireless web browsing. If KDE or GNOME needs more disk/RAM than I have available is XCFE the only alternative to the bleak Motif experience? I don't have any money to get a better laptop or to upgrade the RAM and/or disk at this time.
I am sorry if I am broking any netiquete of the list here,
But I recommend you. Xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org) DSL (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) puppy Linux (http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1)
As they are designed for small *old* PCs.
regards,
Hi;
Thanks to all of the suggestions and comments.
Ken Wolcott
On 1/8/07, Guillermo Garron guillermo.fedora@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/8/07, Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolcott@gmail.com wrote:
Hi;
I'm new to the CentOS list and I only have experience with CentOS 4.3
/4.4
on desktops. I just installed CentOS 4.4 on a very old Dell Inspiron
3500
laptop. I choose the desktop option and then deleted the kde and gnome packages because I have only 192mb RAM and 4gb disk (total). I'd like suggestions on how to maximize the effective usage of the laptop with
CentOS
4.4...as a minimum I want to do secure wireless web browsing. If KDE or GNOME needs more disk/RAM than I have available is XCFE the only
alternative
to the bleak Motif experience? I don't have any money to get a better laptop or to upgrade the RAM and/or disk at this time.
I am sorry if I am broking any netiquete of the list here,
But I recommend you. Xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org) DSL (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) puppy Linux (http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1)
As they are designed for small *old* PCs.
regards,
-- Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." (Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) http://www.go2linux.org _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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