Hi; Thanks to all of the suggestions and comments. Ken Wolcott On 1/8/07, Guillermo Garron <guillermo.fedora at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1/8/07, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> 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. > I am sorry if I am broking any netiquete of the list here, > > But I recommend you. > Xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org) > DSL (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) > puppy Linux (http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1) > > As they are designed for small *old* PCs. > > regards, > > -- > Guillermo Garron > "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." > (Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) > http://www.go2linux.org > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070109/f896e555/attachment-0004.html>