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?
TIA!
Jeff
As others have said, you should be fine with 384MB RAM. One thing to
note - I think the graphical installer requires 512MB to run (check the
release notes) so you would need to perform a text mode install. Do a
fairly minimal install and add whatever you want afterwards with YUM.
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