Gnome 2 On CentOS 6

theKbStockpiler · 07-31-2011, 10:15 AM

I'm looking to install CentOS 6 but use Gnome 2. Can this be done with Yum? The context of this question is that I'm going to be setting up a Laptop with a 2gig dual core and would like to keep the resources down for battery life. The information I get for Laptop recommendations http://www.renewablepcs.com/about-li...-gnome-or-xfce is that Gnome 2 takes less then even the low resource users like Xfce. I was also wondering if the increase in resources was mostly because of more appealing images?

Thanks in advance!

cascade9 · 07-31-2011, 10:25 AM

I think that CentOS6.X uses gnome 2.X, not gnome 3.

Hmm...I think you misread what that page you linked to says-

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Regarding system resource usage, GNOME 2.x requires less RAM but more CPU than GNOME 3, and less RAM and CPU than Unity or KDE but more than XFCE or LXDE.

Gnome 2.X will use more RAM and CPU than Xfce according to that page (and I'd agree from my own experience).

John VV · 07-31-2011, 02:31 PM

cent 6( no centos 6.1 yet) or RHEL6.1 or SL6.1 use gnome 2 .Not Gnome 3
BUT
they are NOT good for most laptops .They were never designed with laptops in mind .So some things like the mouse pad, or sound and video, or the network adapter might not work well or not at all .

Ubuntu with say xfce might be better on a laptop

16pide · 07-31-2011, 03:58 PM

it's Fedora 15 that is the first in the Fedora-Centos-Redhat family to use Gnome 3.
with Centos you're safe for a few more years I think.
but as was mentioned before, you may get some things not working right for a laptop in Centos (microphone, volume button, bluetooth, things like that).
If your hardware is a bt recent, I'd use Fedora 14 (gnome 2), or Fedora 15 (Gnome 3).

two gigabytes of RAM should be fine for Fedora, even Fedora 15/gnome 3, I used that for a month or two before I was given a huge laptop

theKbStockpiler · 08-01-2011, 10:38 AM

This Laptop is going to be used for a tool more than anything, OBD2, oscilloscope and to study parallel/serial networks. A machine to build machines type of ideology. This particular laptop is only going to be networked to the desktop so I'm not interested in wireless at all.I want to have all the same Distro's on all my computers for ease of learning and so on. Fedora 13 will be the holdover on the main one until it has problems. It works as well as the first update. Right now I doubt that there will be any big differences between CentOS and Fedora. I'm getting a feel for computing lately and it has given me that impression. I'm expecting that the difference between the two will not make a difference as far as administration certification goes. If I ever get a Linux job I will be installing Fedora just to be a pain in the butt, an outdated one to boot. I will look into the mouse-pad tip. Does anyone know how I can check for or add a driver? All I know is to recompile the kernel and check it off from a list plus the module thing. I installed Xfce on Fedora and the lack of Gnomes (Weather-Report) made me go back to Gnome. I hear people complain about the newer KDE and Gnomes and I don't think that Gnome2 ;while being able to use Dolphin, can be beat. I think that they are involved in "Bloat Wars". It is interesting that it is hard to find a used Laptop with Vista on it and Linux users use Xfce.

DavidMcCann · 08-01-2011, 11:20 AM

For the weather, would this suit you?
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/pan...weather-plugin

Xfce on CentOS and Fedora can be a problem, though. I've found bugs in the Fedora version, while CentOS doesn't have one at all. You have to compile it yourself; the EPEL version was broken, the last time I looked. If you like Xfce and want a stable Linux, try Salix. In fact, the distro matters more than the GUI when it comes to battery life. I've lost the link, but there was a survey a couple of years ago that showed Debian with KDE to be the most economical of the distros tested! For advice on power saving:
http://www.lesswatts.org/

John VV · 08-01-2011, 01:14 PM

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Fedora 13 will be the holdover on the main one until it has problems. It works as well as the first update

you are aware that fedora 13 is PAST it's End Of Life there will NEVER be any updates or security fixes ever - it is dead .

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Right now I doubt that there will be any big differences between CentOS and Fedora.

you would be VERY wrong on that
Cent is RHEL but Fedora is no longer even close
the OS is VERY different
what might work on RHEL6 might NOT work in fedora any more and visa versa

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I'm expecting that the difference between the two will not make a difference as far as administration certification goes

see above ( unless you are referring to centos VS RHEL