Nicola Losito wrote:

Chris Mauritz ha scritto:

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The best thing you can do to speed things up is to bump your memory up to 512mb. I suspect that will make a big difference in perceived speed.

I'm awfully late on the list, but I can assure that a p3 @1GHz with 512MB of pc133 ram works perfectly with no apparent difference with my centrino @1,6GHz.

As a point of reference, I just did 2 installs on "older hardware" that is being repurposed for one of my young children to play on. The configs were as follows:

single cpu P4 2.0ghz 512mb RAM 60gig maxtor ATA/133 hard disk Nvidia Geforce 5200 video card

dual P3 850 1024mb RAM 60gig Maxtor ATA/133 hard disk Nvidia GeForce 5200 hard disk

The hard drives were "whatever was on sale" when I walked into CompUSA yesterday. Same for the video cards. I installed 4.0 in a desktop configuration on both machines and without having run any benchmarks, it certainly FEELS like the dual P3 system is a lot snappier to use. Windows XP seemed a bit sluggish on both machines by comparison. As a matter of fact, the dual P3 seems more responsive than my Athlon 64 3400+ Compaq notebook running WinXP. Go figure. I'll probably give my daughter the dual P3. My wife wanted to run out and buy a Mac mini for the kids, but I just couldn't see myself dropping $700 on that when I had all this "extra" hardware laying about. You definitely don't need the latest and greatest hardware to make Linux sing.

Cheers,

C

Perhaps we should call it "bloatos" ;-)

Johnny Hughes wrote:

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 06:55 -0400, kenkensmile@netscape.net wrote:

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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 :)

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xfce, compiled with optimizations, make my 1.1 ghz celeron laptop fly. http://www.os-cillation.com/article.php?sid=43

Karanbir Singh wrote:

kenkensmile@netscape.net wrote:

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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???

Disable all services you dont need, stop the VC's ( you might want to retain at least 1 ), move to a lighter Gnome theme ( clearlooks is my current fav.!)

You will find CentOS 4 on a P-III 1 Ghz cpu is quite usable. In most cases, the HDD transfer rate is going to be slowing you down more than anything else. ( Maybe read ahead tweaking might help here, marginally )

While 256MB is 'enough' for most things, its apps like OpenOffice that are going to struggle a bit.

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