On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 16:20 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 04:34:23PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > I'm running CentOS 5.4 on a ~10 y/o laptop with PII366Mhz/256MB RAM and > > it works OK. (Javascript sites under FF 3.0 are rather slow, but > > everything else, including OpenOffice is OK) > > > > In general, I removed most of the services keeping only the essentials > > (iptables, selinux), replaced GDM with SLIM login manager, > > Is GDM an issue? Its daemon is not memory-hungry. On my laptop it takes > much less memory than, say, icewm. The login screen doesn't run when > most of the system runs, so I don't really care about it.
Both Fedora and CentOS keep it active in init 5 - where it eats ~10MB of RAM. SLIM needs 1/4 of that. I try to save what ever I can. > > > and replaced > > the DE with a combination of IceWM + iDesk. In general I usually finish > > boot with >80MB of memory used. > > LXDE may be a useful alternative for a desktop. Alternatively, if you > want a simple window manager that at least shows Hebrew properly on > window titles, use one of openbox(?), fvwm, jwm, E17(?) or anything > based on gtk. > Actually, being the maintainer of icewm under RHEL/CentOS and Fedora, I fixed the title-bar issue a couple of months ago :) - Gilboa _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
