If you have a laptop without a Duo Core processor, or less than 1G of RAM, and you like Fedora series. CentOS is a very good choice. Its hardware requirement is on par with Fedora Core 6 but it has some recent bug fixes (I suppose, otherwise, why did they just announce 5.1.). It has great performance, enabling your older machine to be light fast again.
I fixed 2 of the most annoying problems today, nm-applet asking to unlock keyring and screen failing to show up after closing and re-open lid. And I posted the solution with the most useful contents of this post here.
There's a brain-dead style guide here if you are a total newbie (and if you are, read the guide then follow my instructions because you'll have learned how to copy, move files, install packages already. But if anyone needs a version of instructions that they can just copy and paste, just comment.). Otherwise, most of the things in the guide you should already know how to do. But the guide didn't talk about the following important things.
- Wireless: First, you need the driver. For example, my wireless card is Intel 2200BG, so I google for ipw2200. If you have Intel 3945, google ipw3945. You should download a ipw2200-fw-3.0 package (Again, if you are using a Intel 2200BG wireless card). After that, extract the driver, move all the files extracted to /lib/firmware as root. Start network service in system->administration services.
- ntfs: Install these packages fuse, fuse-ntfs-3g, dkms, dkms-fuse. To mount ntfs partitions and automount at startup, read user examples in this page.
- For better performance, because the infrastructure of CentOS is the same as Fedora's, and my lazy man's guide to Fedora tuning is the best (:), comprehensive and simple to follow), so just follow the instructions there.
- If you see the message "Memory for crash kernel not permissible range...", according to the release notes, it's a harmless message...
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