kenkensmile@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>I am using centOS for my server and centOS is extremely stable. I almost love centOS more than my wife. However, centOS is a bit heavy to run on my notebook (P III 1G, 256MB RAM). I need gnome, firefox, openoffice, realplayer, gaim, acrobat and thunderbird on my notebook, but if I install all of them (plus base-system), my notebook becomes very slow. I wish I could have a lighter version of centOS for notebooks and old desktops. Is there any project that I could have a mini-centOS in the future???
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The slowness isn't really CentOS's fault. That's not really enough
memory for an X+gnome environment if you're going to be running piggy
applications like openoffice. Also, I suspect an older P3 notebook
probably has rather slow video hardware which may make things seem worse
than they really are. The best thing you can do to speed things up is
to bump your memory up to 512mb. I suspect that will make a big
difference in perceived speed.
Cheers,
C
