> I've probably said this elsewhere, but with the performance of the
> Mate desktop, Trisquel-Mini is a bit redundant.

To be fair, in addition to a different desktop environment, Trisquel
Mini also has different default applications (Midori instead of
Abrowser, Abiword instead of LibreOffice Writer, etc.) but even this
probably doesn't make a huge difference.

The lowest-spec machines I have are my ASUS Eeepc netbooks (cheapest
laptops I could find with an "A" rating on h-node), which have 1GB of
RAM. I found that a very light window manager (Icewm) was noticeably
more responsive than full desktop environments, but I notice no
difference between LXDE and MATE, though both run a little better than
GNOME. I also notice no difference between Midori 7 and Abrowser.

Honestly, I think the users' browsing habits are typically the 

> Also, slackermedia.info might be worth a look for anyone interested in
> multimedia production on GNU/Linux. They claim to be ...
> > "100% Free & Open Source Software"
> 
> ... although I don't know whether everything their project includes is
> libre by GFDG standards.

Probably not, if they don't explicitly go out of their way to do so. The
FSDG are pretty strict, and meeting them requires addressing some
non-obvious issues.

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