On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:30 PM, yuri <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/4/6 Dale DuRose: >> Well i remember a few years ago that gnome had a major rewrite. I also >> remember that it was pretty slow before the rewrite. Now its runs exceptable >> speed. But KDE was always slower and a memory hog. > > My laptop still has only 256MB. > One quarter of a gig - sounds puny when you say it like that. > Memory hogging software is becoming a problem and upgrade funds are > being diverted to nappy wipes, new cot, baby clothes (they grow so > fast) etc.
DSE had a special on some laptop sodimm running last time I was on their website, very cheap but you'd have to check it was what you needed! Have you tried xubuntu with xfce? Very capable desktop manager.
