A couple of years ago I installed C6 on a ThinkPad A20 (512MB ram, 450MHz cpu). It runs, but is painfully slow. It can handle vi in an xterm, but not a modern web browser. Even a simple yum update takes too long. Personally, i suggest staying with C5 and planning to recycle the hardware when C5 goes EOL. It comes down to which applications you need to support and how big your support budget is. On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Niki Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > I often have to deal with relatively obsolete hardware in schools, public > libraries, small town halls, etc. I still have a handful of CentOS 5.x > installations around for these, but I wonder what CentOS 6.x desktop specs > are, e. g. the minimum requirements (in terms of CPU and RAM) to reasonably > run it. Will a battered first-generation P-IV with 512 MB RAM be > sufficient? How much RAM does 6.x's graphical installer require to even > start? Or is it better to opt for CentOS 5.x on this sort of dinosaur? > > Cheers, > > Niki > -- > Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres > 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat > Web : http://www.microlinux.fr > Mail : info at microlinux.fr > Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >