[CentOS] Mini-centOS

Fri May 13 11:13:32 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

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 :)

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