On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 06:55 -0400, kenkensmile at 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 :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050513/2405f069/attachment-0004.sig>