[CentOS] Mini-centOS

Peter Farrow peter at farrows.org
Fri May 13 11:38:19 UTC 2005


Perhaps we should call it "bloatos"   ;-)


Johnny Hughes wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 06:55 -0400, kenkensmile at 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
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>It won't get much faster if you choose those products :)
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>There is XFCE-4.2 that you could install instead of GNOME or KDE
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>do:
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>yum groupinstall XFCE-4.2
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>and pick XFCE as the session you log in to at the main screen by
>selecting session ... it should be faster
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>If you want to change permanently ... do:
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>switchdesk XFCE
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>You can get a minimum install by doing a minimal install from
>anaconda ... then doing:
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>yum groupinstall XFCE-4.2 "X Window System" "Office/Productivity"
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>then install the individual things you want via yum...
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>I'll do that on a test box and tell you how much space it is :)
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