On Thursday 29 May 2008 12:31:17 Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: > Good morning, > > 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? > For a time I ran FC6 on a laptop with only 256MB RAM, and I ran kde! It was slow, yes, but quite usable as long as I did one thing at a time. Considering the similarity between FC6 and CentOS5 I would think you'd be OK, using it with care. ISTR that Firefox occasionally caused runaway cpu, but I doubt if the same problem exists in the current CentOS version. Anne -------------- 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/20080529/851e0adf/attachment-0004.sig>