[CentOS] Low-memory Centos5?

[Max Hetrick]

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Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:

> I've inherited an old laptop from my wife that I'd like to
> use when I travel (it's fairly small with a 12" screen). The
> bad part is that it is maxed out on memory with 384MB.
> Has anyone played with using Centos5 on systems with
> little memory? Ideally, I don't need too much - Firefox,
> Openoffice, a little Perl/Python/C here and there. I was
> thinking about using either XFCE or Icewm as the window
> manager. I'd also like it to work with the existing wireless
> card (Dlink DWL-G650). Any thoughts or recommendations?


If you don't have to have a Red Hat based distro for this installation,
perhaps look at DSL.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

You can do an installation to hard drive and it takes very little
resources. It's Debian based, not my preference, but perfect for these
types of situations.

It's supposed to run on memory as low as 128Mb and still be fast.

As far as your wireless, from what I read you have to use the
ndiswrapper to get cards to work under it, configuring it with
wlanconfig. I've never done it.

Anyways, hope this helps. Not that I like suggesting non CentOS
products, but it's a suggestion.

Regards,
Max


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