RH 5 or 6 RAM Requirements

salmanal · 03-20-2006, 11:32 PM

The non-profit I'm helping has a Celeron (450 I think) and 128 MB of RAM. I have CDs of RH 5 and 6 in books I borrowed from the Library.

Are these older versions of RH RAM hungry? Most distros I see now prefer 256 MB RAM.

Thanks for your Help,

-salman

macemoneta · 03-21-2006, 12:04 AM

While Gnome and KDE desktop environments need large memory environments, current Fedora also includes the Xfce desktop environment. You can run quite comfortably in 128MB.

salmanal · 03-21-2006, 06:38 PM

I do have Fedora Core 4, but I don't see a reference to
Xfce or any Graphical User Environment in the online notes. How does one choose this Graphical User Environment during installation?

Thanks so much for this tip,

salmanal

macemoneta · 03-21-2006, 06:49 PM

In FC4, you should just need to:

yum groupinstall XFCE

Then issue the command:

switchdesk XFCE

When you logout and then logback in, you should be in Xfce.

Update: To do this during installation for a low memory system, you can perform a minimal install, then run the yum and switchdesk.

salmanal · 03-21-2006, 08:13 PM

Thanks so much for your prompt reply. I think I'll have the machine
back to the children's center as Promised Thursday.

I know the machine will run Billy G's mess, but I couldn't do that to children.