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?
I have a number of 256Mb Centos installs here with Gnome. I shut off as
many services as possible, and it runs. I made the swap partition (Yes I
manually create a separate swap partition instead of running it in LVM)
at least 512Mb if not more.
Firefox 1.5 works fine. Watch yourself with OpenOffice, don't have too
much running.
One trick I do with Centos servers running with only 256Mb, is run
VNCserver and then from my notebook access with Gnome. This works great,
only a one line change in the vnc files to have Gnome as your GUI on the
server.
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