Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements

2015-03-25 Thread James Szinger
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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements

2015-03-24 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 24/03/2015 09:45, Ashish Yadav a écrit : Try considering Bodhi and Puppy Linux also. Thanks but no. As I already stated, I have my own blend of Slackware for this. My question was: I want to install CentOS (and not $OTHER_DISTRO) on these machines, so what are the minimum specs? --

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements

2015-03-24 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 24/03/2015 09:52, Phil Wyett a écrit : RHEL version min/max specs can be found: https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits Thanks! That's exactly the document I was looking for. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements

2015-03-24 Thread Timothy Murphy
Phil Wyett wrote: RHEL version min/max specs can be found: https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits Ignorant question: what does POWER mean in these tables? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements

2015-03-24 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 04:04:03PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote: Phil Wyett wrote: RHEL version min/max specs can be found: https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits Ignorant question: what does POWER mean in these tables? I believe that would be the IBM POWER series of chips,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements

2015-03-24 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 24/03/2015 08:34, John R Pierce a écrit : I'd be looking at something like TinyLinux or DamnSmallLinux on those. I don't want anything else than CentOS for the job. I used to install my own heavily customized version of Slackware on these machines (http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/),

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements

2015-03-24 Thread Ashish Yadav
Hi, On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Niki Kovacs i...@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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements

2015-03-24 Thread Phil Wyett
On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 09:38 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: Le 24/03/2015 08:34, John R Pierce a écrit : I'd be looking at something like TinyLinux or DamnSmallLinux on those. I don't want anything else than CentOS for the job. I used to install my own heavily customized version of Slackware on

[CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements

2015-03-24 Thread Niki Kovacs
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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements

2015-03-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/24/2015 12:19 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: 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