System

1. Install CentOS with CentOS-6.5-i386-minimal.iso;

2. Choose "Install system with basic video driver";

Network

1. After Installation, login as root, modify "NM_CONTROLLED" to "no" and "ONBOOT" to "yes", and "BOOTPROTO" to "dhcp" in file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0;

2. run service network restart, verify network with ip addr and ping www.baidu.com;

Desktop Environment

Install epel repository: on x84_64 host:

# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Instead "x86_64" above with "i386" on x86 (32bit) host.

# yum update
# yum groupinstall Xfce Fonts
# useradd -m chad

Reboot and login as chad, run startxfce4 and the Desktop Environment start (you can't run this command when you switch from another user via "su").

Other

# yum install git zsh tmux
# yum install rabbitvcs-thunar rabbitvcs-cli  // a tortoise-svn like subversion & git client, start repo browser with `rabbitvcs browser` or right-click in a thunar window

Define Shortcuts

Alt-F2 -> xfce4-appfinder -> keyboard -> Application Shortcuts -> Add: Command: xfce4-appfinder; ShortCut: Alt-[