Re: [CentOS] Related to the new laptop question: CentOS on a netbook?

2015-04-16 Thread Michael Horne
scratch that, I swapped the 2gb for 4gb. most people are amazed at the speed of it... I managed to convert a few people to linux on their netbook recently and they will never turn back. great way to rejuvenate old hardware. On 16/04/15 10:39, Michael Horne wrote: running a cheap Acer Aspire

Re: [CentOS] Related to the new laptop question: CentOS on a netbook?

2015-04-16 Thread Michael Horne
running a cheap Acer Aspire one 722, 2gb ram, dual core 1ghz, swapped the HDD for a SSD. it's running fedora 21 LXDE. it's fast, powerful enough for working on the move and boots / shuts down in about 10 seconds flat. I also had Centos7 on here before but Fedora has better support for multime

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.1 user login screen can't scroll up/down

2015-04-09 Thread Michael Horne
Aside from the annoyance of having all local users listed on the login screen we have noticed with CentOS7 using NIS and NFS home directories that once a user authenticates their home directory is automatically mounted on boot, even after rebooting and disabling the list using echo "[org/gnome