Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 7 Jun 2017, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I might add that NOT using GNOME on a notebook is a big processor/battery win. I switched to Xfce some years ago. I get far more hours out of this old NC10 with C6 and Gnome than I can cope with the cramped keyboard, so I don't need to tweak anythin

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 7 Jun 2017, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 06/06/2017 02:53 AM, John Hodrien wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Mmmm... looks like I may go for C6, then, since unlike that Ubuntu, I will want to do updates at least every time I get ready for a trip (other times, it sits in th

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 06/07/2017 12:39 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 06/06/2017 02:53 AM, John Hodrien wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Mmmm... looks like I may go for C6, then, since unlike that Ubuntu, I will want to do updates at least every time I get ready for a trip (other times, it sits

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/06/2017 02:53 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Mmmm... looks like I may go for C6, then, since unlike that Ubuntu, I >> will >> want to do updates at least every time I get ready for a trip (other >> times, it sits in the closet turned off). > > I w

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Mmmm... looks like I may go for C6, then, since unlike that Ubuntu, I will want to do updates at least every time I get ready for a trip (other times, it sits in the closet turned off). I went for C6 on a Samsung NC10 (1.6GHz Atom N270 1GB RAM), only

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-05 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 06/05/2017 11:15 AM, Fred Smith wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 10:31:10AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> I've got an old HP Netbook, which is just fine for taking with when I'm >>> travelling, to check email and news. I have a very old Ubuntu >>> netbook-remix on it

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/05/2017 11:15 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 10:31:10AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I've got an old HP Netbook, which is just fine for taking with when I'm >> travelling, to check email and news. I have a very old Ubuntu >> netbook-remix on it, and it really, *really* n

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-05 Thread Scott Robbins
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 10:31:10AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > I've got an old HP Netbook, which is just fine for taking with when I'm > > travelling, to check email and news. I have a very old Ubuntu > > netbook-remix on it, and it really, *really* needs to be updated to > > something c

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-05 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 10:31:10AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I've got an old HP Netbook, which is just fine for taking with when I'm > travelling, to check email and news. I have a very old Ubuntu > netbook-remix on it, and it really, *really* needs to be updated to > something current. I, o

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/05/2017 09:31 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I've got an old HP Netbook, which is just fine for taking with when I'm > travelling, to check email and news. I have a very old Ubuntu > netbook-remix on it, and it really, *really* needs to be updated to > something current. I, of course, would pr

[CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-05 Thread m . roth
I've got an old HP Netbook, which is just fine for taking with when I'm travelling, to check email and news. I have a very old Ubuntu netbook-remix on it, and it really, *really* needs to be updated to something current. I, of course, would prefer CentOS The question is: I see that *if* the sp