Memory economical Linux installation?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

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.

> 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.

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