[CentOS] 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
Fabian Arrotin
fabian.arrotin at arrfab.netMon Jan 8 20:56:14 UTC 2007
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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) -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> -------------- 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/20070108/23d6c493/attachment-0001.sig>
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