fc3 on old 7GB HD with 64MB Ram

Vinicius cviniciusm at terra.com.br
Fri Jan 28 15:41:04 UTC 2005


Charles E Taylor IV escreveu:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:48:00 +0100 (CET)
> duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk wrote:
> 
> 
>>The laptop has fc2 running now, but not very well - i just installed it
>>'out of the box' with no tweaks. I now want to put fc3 on with whatever
>>tweaks people can suggest.
> 
> 
> Run XFCE4, not Gnome or KDE.  That will save you a *lot* of memory which
> your system can use for other things.
> 
> Disable any services you don't absolutely need after the installation. 
> FC3 runs more stuff by default than you will need on an 
> older box.
> 
> For casual browsing on old hardware, you might want to install dillo in
> addition to firefox/mozilla.  See http://www.dillo.org/
> 

and have you read the "Fedora Core 3 x86 Release Notes" at 
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/ ?




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